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French black comedy-cum-crime thriller about an Albanian prostitute
(César winner Rachida Brakni) and a married Parisian (Catherine
Frot) who bond after an accident changes their lives. Directed by
Coline Serreau. In French, with English subtitles. (1 hr. 48 mins.;
NR) — BILGE EBIRI
Spotlight: Director Coline Serreau
In Chaos, Coline Serreau's ninth film, a wife (Catherine Frot) and
a whore (Rachida Brakni) team up to tear down the men—a husband
and a pimp—who've made their lives hell. The film (think Run
Lola Run meets Thelma & Louise) is set in a world where
Algerian businessmen sell their daughters, pimps lock teenagers
in drug dens, and randy college students with multiple girlfriends
still need their mothers to make them lunch. What kind of person
would make such a film? "An angry person," answers Serreau,
best known in the States for, ironically, Trois Hommes et Un
Couffin, which was remade as Three Men and a Baby. "I
enthusiastically make films about the upper-class white man getting
his due, because I hope someday that will happen."
Opens January 29
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