Facets Multimedia
1517 W. Fullerton Ave.
Chicago IL 60614
800.331.6197

Sales hours:
    9am-5pm, Mon.-Fri.

Rental hours:
    10am-10pm, Mon.-Sat.,
    12pm-10pm, Sun. & holidays

• Current Schedule
• Films Coming in March
• Films Coming in April

    Archives:

• 2012
  • January 2012
• 2011
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
• 2010
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
• 2009
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
• 2008
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
• 2007
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
• 2006
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • June 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • March 2006
  • February 2006
  • January 2006
• 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • April 2005
  • March 2005
  • February 2005
  • January 2005

CHARLES COLEMAN
Film Programmer for Facets Cinémathèque

Read his feature in the Chicago Reader

June 2010

The Facets Cinémathèque is located at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. in Chicago. For more information on films playing in the Cinémathèque, please call 773-281-4114. To order advance tickets online, visit the TicketWeb website by clicking here.


U.S. Theatrical
Premiere

ACCOMPLICES
(Complices)

Carefree Vincent (Cyril Descours) and Rebecca (Nina Meurisse), just turned 18, meet at a cybercafé, and it is love at first sight. Two months later, Vincent's body is fished out of a river and Rebecca cannot be found. What happened? Accomplices combines two stories, that of Rebecca and Vincent who plunge recklessly into the world of prostitution, and that of Inspector Cagan (Gilbert Melki) and his colleague Mangin (Emmanuelle Devos, Read My Lips) who are seeking to understand and reconstruct what happened. In the course of his investigation Cagan discovers that Vincent was a prostitute, finding clients via the Internet. Rebecca, far from wanting him to change, is attracted by the lure of finanicial gain and wants to push him further in that direction. Wanting to share his experiences, she decides to accompany him to his clients. Questioning Vincent's clients and Rebecca's mother, who is distraught at her daughter's disappearance, the inspector gets ever more deeply mired in a situation where corpses are piling up, and he is forced to get more involved in order to resolve this disturbing case. The story of these doomed lovers resonates with him personally, which underscores his own uncertainties, pushing him to make a crucial choice that will change his life.

Known to audiences for his short films, this is Swiss filmmaker Frédéric Mermoud's feature debut, which he also co-scripted. He displays his considerable talent by interweaving different timeframes to recount the investigation of an inspector pursuing his job with such zeal that he loses himself in it, thereby giving us a police drama that is both a detective as well as a love story.

Directed by Frédéric Mermoud, France, 2009, 93 mins. In French with English subtitles.





Director interview     Roger Ebert     NewCity Chicago     Chicago Reader        

Showtimes:
Fri., June 11 at 7 & 9 pm
Sat-Sun., Jun. 12-13 at 3, 5, 7 & 9 pm
Mon.-Thurs., Jun. 14-17 at 7 & 9 pm



Tickets: