The Screen Illusion

In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Corneilles brilliant eponymous 17th century play the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel concierge who uses the myriad inhouse hightech security cameras to show worried father Pridamant the whereabouts and travails of his son Clindor As Pridamant witnesses the conflicting romances involving his estranged son Corneilles modernist metanarrative is transposed to contemporary Paris underscoring the ambiguous nature of love wealth and desire in an age of consumerism Chicago International Film Festival