- Love Is Strange
In this week’s long review, Ben Sachs describes the filmmaking of French director Philippe Garrel as “a cross between Romantic poetry and the experimental cinema of Andy Warhol.” Garrel’s latest feature, Jealousy, screens all week at Gene Siskel Film Center. Friday brings the opening night of Noir City: Chicago 6, a weeklong festival of film noirs presented by Music Box and the Film Noir Foundation. And we’ve got recommended reviews of Laughter, a 1930 comedy that opens Jonathan Rosenbaum’s semester-long lecture series “The Unquiet American: Transgressive Comedies From the U.S.,” and Ira Sachs’s Love Is Strange, with Alfred Molina and John Lithgow as an aging gay couple in New York who are forced to live apart after their legal marriage brings unintended consequences.
