Gene Siskel Film Center (Venue Partner)
164 North State Street
312.846.2800
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Friday Feb 10 (6pm)
Saturday Feb 11 (3pm)
Sunday Feb 12 (5:15pm)
Monday Feb 13 (8pm)
Wednesday Feb 15 (8pm)
Thursday Feb 16 (8:15pm)
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“Bertrand Bonello's languid portrait of a turn-of-the-century Parisian brothel made several critics' Best of 2011 lists, but it's only now finding a Chicago theatrical run. (It was previously available via Amazon Instant Video and IFC on Demand.) Staying almost entirely within a single location, House of Pleasures imagines a sisterhood of luxurious captivity, long before the modern era of sex-work-as-empowerment that it implicitly allies. Bonello maintains an atmosphere of soft-focus claustrophobia throughout, employing several keen formal flourishes: anachronistic music cues, voluptuous set design, lush cinematography, and subtly disorienting temporal shifts. So even as we see the ugly details, the sad sense of transience is impossible to escape.”
Stephen Gossett, Flavorpill
