Almost certainly the best movie in SIFF 2008, Abdellatif
Kechiche’s follow-up to Games of Love & Chance burrows into
a tight-knit Tunisian immigrant community in a small port town in the
south of France. From 61-year-old Slimane, thrown against his will
into a twilight career change, to his sort-of stepdaughter Rym,
who’s gorgeous and assertive enough to charm elderly musicians and
inebriated bureaucrats alike, the characters are fantastic.
Kechiche is one of SIFF’s “Emerging Masters,” but at this point? He’s
done emerging. He’s a goddamn butterfly. (Egyptian
Theatre, 801 E Pine St, www.thestranger.com/siff. 6 pm,
$11.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...