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The Gene Siskel Film Center presents Les Sixties, an eight-film celebration of the most exciting period in French film history—the era of the New Wave.

Featured are once divisive, now canonical, but still challenging masterpieces by Godard, Melville, Resnais, Truffaut, and Varda.

All films are being presented in recently struck 35mm prints.

From May 17 through June 5, the Chicago Gene Siskel Film Center, in association with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (MAE), presents Word Made Flesh: The Films of Jean Eustache.

Best known for his 1972 masterpiece THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE, Eustache was a key figure in the evolution of post-New Wa

The popular follow-up to the immensely popular French spin on American musicas The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

(1967; 125 min.) Directed by Jacques Demy; starring Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.

The Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N.

State Street; Tel: 312-846-2600