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This week's new film releases

2 December 2011 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Hugo (U)

(Martin Scorsese, 2011, Us) Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen. 126 mins.

Eyebrows were raised and expectations lowered at the prospect of a Scorsese-made 3D family movie – but now it all makes sense. This is less a kids' romp than a hymn to early cinema – sugar-coated with a junior steampunk adventure revolving around an Parisian orphan and his mystery automaton. It's a satisfyingly lavish affair technically, with a story that's intelligent and heartfelt.

We Have A Pope (PG)

(Nanni Moretti, 2011, Ita/Fra) Nanni Moretti, Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr. 105 mins.

Moretti's Vatican satire is wry rather than scathing, which will disappoint many. But there's fun to be had as Piccoli's panicked new pope seeks therapy from Moretti's secular psychoanalyst.

Surviving Life (15)

(Jan Svankmajer, 2010, Cze) Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová. 109 mins.

More light-hearted Freudian comedy, with Monty Python-style cut-out animation, as a middle-aged man prefers his dream world to reality, »

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Amélie

8 August 2011 2:20 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Whoever said French people are rude clearly never saw the movie Amélie, a movie all about an altruistic young French woman living in late '90s Paris.

Audrey Tautou plays Amélie, a very passive and observant young Parisian. Her life seems without purpose as she lives day to day as a server in a small cafe. We learn about her life as a child, and can understand her slight bit of anti-social behavior -- for the most part, it was due to being raised by anti-social and eccentric parents. Her mother (Lorella Cravotta) eventually dies in a freak accident involving a woman jumping off a building and landing on her, and so grows up with only her inattentive father (Rufus) by her side.

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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Romantics Anonymous’ at Chicago French Film Festival

18 July 2011 2:46 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – In our special French film festival edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago showing of the film “Romantics Anonymous” at the opening night of the Music Box Theatre’s Chicago French Film Festival!

The film’s original title is “Les émotifs anonymes”. “Romantics Anonymous” from writer and director Jean-Pierre Améris stars Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lamétrie, Swann Arlaud, Pierre Niney and Stéphan Wojtowicz. Director Jean-Pierre Améris will be at this Music Box Theatre showing in person!

To win your free pass to the opening-night Chicago showing of “Romantics Anonymous” at the Chicago French Film Festival courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This showing is on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:45 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the image below. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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