Reeling: The 24th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival continues Friday through Sunday, November 11 through 13, at Landmark’s Century Centre and the Columbia College Ludington Building, 1104 S. Wabash. Tickets are $10, $8 for members of Chicago Filmmakers.
R Original Pride: The Satyrs Motorcycle Club
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day he runs the family laundry business; by night he loves a handsome agent of the resistance (Bruno Todeschini). Both their lives are threatened by a trio of characters fixated on the hero: a closeted Nazi officer, a fugitive Jewish woman, and the hero’s jealous black sheep of a brother. With its convoluted relationships and intrusive musical score, this plays like a soap opera more than a Holocaust drama. Directed by Christian Faure. In French with subtitles. 102 min. (AG) (Columbia College Ludington Bldg., 7:00)
Floored by Love
Filmmaker Karen Everett reflects on her 15-year struggle to find true love in San Francisco’s lesbian community, and though she celebrates unconventional romantic arrangements, her and her friends’ personal history makes a better case for monogamy. This video memoir (59 min.) doesn’t amount to much more than a self-absorbed intellectual evaluating her commitment problems, but Everett’s friends and their ever-shifting relationships are lively and interesting enough to keep this from collapsing into narcissism. Two short videos complete the program: Peter A. Pizzi’s awful Love Is Blind (10 min.) and Barbara Green and Michelle Boyaner’s Tina Paulina: Living on Hope Street (9 min.), an affectionate portrait of a homeless lesbian. (Reece Pendleton) (Columbia College Ludington Bldg., 9:00)
This unique musical documentary from Norway charts several years in the life of a young transgender man both before and after his sexual reassignment surgery. In 2001 directors Trond Winterkjaer and Jon Dalchow gave their subject a camera to keep a video journal, which results in a touchingly frank and occasionally bittersweet self-portrait. Just 22 at the time of the surgery, Morten/Monica comes across as intelligent and self-aware, qualities the film suggests are prerequisites for the radical procedure. Winning musical numbers blend seamlessly with the story; in one of them Morten/Monica is spotlighted on the operating table while doctors in scrubs prance through a mist of dry ice. In Norwegian with subtitles. 73 min. (JK) (Columbia College Ludington Bldg., noon)
R Little Man
