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CFS Presents: SHY PEOPLE in 35mm
Monday, October 25 @ 7:00 PM / Music Box Theatre
SHY PEOPLE
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky - 1987
Do you love Deliverance but find it too mannered and insufficiently attentive to mother-daughter dynamics? A lyrical cousin to John Boorman's tight-lipped landmark of Southern sadism, Shy People is one of the most unclassifiable artifacts of '80s cinema, a grindhouse melodrama rife with contradictions. The expansive vision of bayou life exudes a bathroom-stall graffiti vibe, but its international pedigree is second-to-none: intermittently ambitious Israeli exploitation mavens Golan and Globus, fresh off their first Oscar-nominated production, Runaway Train, sent that film's Russian auteur Andrei Konchalovsky to shoot on location in Louisiana, working from a script by Roman Polanskis frequent collaborator, Frenchman Gérard Brach, and topped it all off with a score from German electronica favorite Tangerine Dream. The cultural dislocation behind the camera is mirrored on screen, with Jill Clayburgh starring as a jet-setting Cosmopolitan journalist whose genealogy research sends her and daughter Martha Plimpton to a haunted swamp, with Louis Vuitton bags and The Cure paraphernalia in tow. There they meet distant relative Barbara Hershey and her unruly brood, who aren't eager for a family reunion with unscrupulous city folk. Nestled among the trill of mosquitoes and speedboats and Chris Menges's astonishingly humid 'Scope cinematography is a surprisingly sensitive study of families and the work required to keep them above water. Hershey won a Best Actress citation at Cannes, but the cash-strapped producers dumped Shy People on the gator circuit for a quick buck. "With slightly different handling," lamented Roger Ebert, "Shy People could have been a best-picture Oscar nominee." (KW)
118 min - The Cannon Group - 35mm from Chicago Film Society Collections, permission Park Circus
Preceded by: Kudzu (Marjorie Anne Short, 1977) - 16 min - 16mm *Encore Presentation!*
All visitors to the Music Box Theatre will need to show proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID test. This includes Chicago Film Society screenings. Please read their COVID guidelines before purchasing tickets.
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LocationMusic Box Theatre (View)
3733 N Southport
Chicago, IL 60613
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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