The ninth European Union Film Festival runs Friday, March 3, through Thursday, March 30, at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, 312-846-2800. Tickets are $9, $7 for students, and $5 for Film Center members. Following are films screening through Thursday, March 9; for a full festival schedule visit www.chicagoreader.com.
A young Romanian couple arrive in Vienna for a no-budget holiday, get into a spat, and go their separate ways, the man hooking up with a horny blond travel agent and the woman falling under the wing of a balding nebbish who monitors surveillance cameras at a supermarket. In a feeble attempt to impose some sort of theme on the meandering story, writer-director Joerg Kalt sets this 2005 German-Austrian feature on the eve of the European Union’s recent expansion to include ten eastern countries. One of the oddball characters works as a test subject for a car company, and her daily routine of simulated crashes provides an ironic contrast to the movie’s limited impact. In English and subtitled German and Romanian. 93 min. (JJ) a Fri 3/3, 8 PM, and Mon 3/6, 6 PM
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