This Week at Facets Cinematheque! Sept. 11 - 17!

Facets is very excited to present the latest from notorious Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl! Import/Export finds the director of Dog Days painting a formidable portrait of two lives struggling in modern Europe. Nominated for Cannes' Best Film prize!

"Absorbing" -Chicago Reader

"Powerful" -TimeOut Chicago

"Bizarre, horrifying, challenging, often brilliant and spectacular, often troubling and indeed objectionable. It is an example of Seidl's characteristic form of grotesque realism--part Diane Arbus, part Samuel Beckett" -The Guardian

"No film-maker has gone so far out on a limb to deliver us the hard news about the new Europe and its grubby economic realities. Forget all the puffed-up indie dabblers who fancy themselves as 'guerrilla' film-makers: Ulrich Seidl, like it or not, is the real thing" -The Independent

Find the trailer at the film's official site.

Import/Export runs from Friday, Sept. 11-Thursday, Sept. 17.

And it's bell bottoms, Farrah hair, rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency galore on Saturday, September 12 at midnight as Facets Night School presents Cheap Tricks & Suburban Kicks: Re-Discovering a Lost Teen Classic--a special evening devoted to the Seventies teen drama, Over the Edge!

Facets' editor Phil Morehart digs into the wild film that took cinematic teen angst to destructive levels; launched the career of Matt Dillon; and enraptured Kurt Cobain. Lecture, screening, discussion--only $5!!

Rock it to the trailer!



For Cinematheque showtimes, tickets, additional info and more, click here.

Coming Next Week!
Lake Tahoe -"[A] droll charmer" (New York Post) and a Facets Night School session devoted to Luc Besson's The Fifth Element!