TAKE 2: What to See in Theaters and Stream in December 2022

Welcome to TAKE 2, our monthly feature where we highlight recent Chicago International Film Festival selections that are now playing in theaters or on streaming platforms in case you missed them at the Festival! Take a look below for the best of #ChiFilmFest to watch this month.

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LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE

Director: Martika Ramirez Escobar
After Dark, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

When an aging action screenwriter is knocked into a coma by a falling television, she becomes trapped in one of her unfinished scripts and must find a way to complete the story while still unconscious.

Screening Details:
Playing at the Music Box Theatre beginning December 2nd.

EO

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Spotlight, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

A series of vignettes tell the life story of Eo, a sentient circus donkey whose tumultuous life finds him bearing witness to the best and worst of humanity in this loving homage to Robert Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar.”

Screening Details:
Playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning December 9th. Don’t miss our free Digging Deeper into Movies with Nick Davis talk on the film on December 15 at 5pm!

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Director: Sam Mendes
Special Presentation, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, Empire of Light is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema from Academy Award®-winning director Sam Mendes.

Screening Details:
Playing in theaters on December 9th.

LOUDMOUTH

Director: Josh Alexander
Black Perspectives, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

THE WHALE

Director: Darren Aronofsky
Special Presentation, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

Brendan Fraser stars in this intimate drama about a reclusive English teacher living with severe obesity who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

Screening Details:
Playing in theaters starting December 9th.

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED

Director: Laura Poitras
Women in Cinema, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

This compelling personal history chronicles Goldin’s tragedies and triumphs, as she uses her position as an artist and disrupter to affect cultural and political change.

Screening Details:
Playing at the Gene Siskel Film Center beginning December 16th.

NANNY

Director: Nikyatu Jusu
Spotlight, Black Perspectives, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

In a stunning performance, Festival Rising Star Award recipient Anna Diop plays a Senegalese nanny increasingly haunted by the absence of the young son she left behind.

Streaming Details:
Now playing at the Landmark Century Centre, available for streaming on Prime Video on December 16th.

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

Director: Rian Johnson
Centerpiece, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

In this follow-up to Rian Johnson’s “Knives Out,” Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects.

Streaming Details:
Available for streaming on Netflix on December 23rd.

CORSAGE

Director: Marie Kreutzer
International Competition, 58th Chicago International Film Festival

Vicky Krieps delivers a tour-de-force performance as Austria’s Empress Elisabeth in a bold and timely revisionist costume drama.

Screening Details:
Playing in theaters on December 23rd.