Facebook
Twitter
Google
Reddit
LinkedIn
del.icio.us
MySpace
StumbleUpon
Newsvine
Digg
CHICAGO – The late playwright August Wilson left a gift to the world in the form of his “American Century Cycle,” a series of plays each individually set in a decade of the 20th Century, focusing on the black experience. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre presents Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” now through May 19th, 2024 (click here).
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Passes to ‘Romantics Anonymous’ at Chicago French Film Festival
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on July 18, 2011 - 4:46pm
Printer-friendly version
E-mail page to friend
PDF version
Benoît Poelvoorde (left) and Isabelle Carré in “Romantics Anonymous”.
Image credit: Studio Canal
Do you believe great couples are matched by accident or fate?
Tune back on Tuesday for our closing-night
Hookup with 50 admit-twos to “The Hedgehog”!
Disclaimer
HollywoodChicago.com LLC is a promotional partner with the studio and
its partners and doesn’t assume any liability for this giveaway.
© 2011 Adam Fendelman, HollywoodChicago.com LLC
Printer-friendly versionE-mail page to friendPDF version
CHICAGO – In our special French film festival edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the Chicago showing of the film “Romantics Anonymous” at the opening night of the Music Box Theatre’s Chicago French Film Festival!
The film’s original title is “Les émotifs anonymes”. “Romantics Anonymous” from writer and director Jean-Pierre Améris stars Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Lorella Cravotta, Lise Lamétrie, Swann Arlaud, Pierre Niney and Stéphan Wojtowicz. Director Jean-Pierre Améris will be at this Music Box Theatre showing in person!
To win your free pass to the opening-night Chicago showing of “Romantics Anonymous” at the Chicago French Film Festival courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This showing is on Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:45 p.m. at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the image below.
Image credit: Studio Canal
Here is the plot description for “Romantics Anonymous” from the Tribeca Film Festival:
This delectable comedy tells the story of Angélique (Isabelle Carré): a gifted chocolate maker with a lifelong case of uncontrollable shyness. Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde) suffers from a similar case of terminal abashment and runs a fledgling chocolate company in desperate need of a new direction. When the two nervous Nellies meet, they are forced to fess up to their sweet affections for each other.
The movie trailer for “Romantics Anonymous” can be watched now below.
Information follows about the Chicago French Film Festival at the Music Box Theatre:
The Music Box Theatre announces the inaugural edition of the Chicago French Film Festival: a three-day celebration of the best in contemporary French cinema. The festival will showcase recent French box-office successes and hit films from the Cannes, Toronto and Tribeca film festivals.
The festival is pleased to welcome two special guests: Jean-Pierre Améris (director of the opening-night feature “Romantics Anonymous”) and Josiane Balasko (star of the closing-night feature “The Hedgehog”).
Other highlights include the festival centerpiece “Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life,” which is based on the life of singer/songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Tickets are now available. Save $40 with the all-festival pass. More information can be found here.
To secure your free tickets now, make sure you’re logged into your HollywoodChicago.com account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having an account with a valid e-mail address is required. Then, simply add a new comment in the form below. In your comment, include an answer to this question:
Like all Hookups here, this Hookup is simple: Just submit your comment below and we will award 50 admit-two tickets randomly via e-mail for our “Romantics Anonymous” Hookup. Winners need to arrive early as seats are consumed on a first-come, first-served basis. Winners are typically e-mailed our movie passes two days before the showing date. Good luck!
Hookup with 50 admit-twos to “The Hedgehog”!
HollywoodChicago.com LLC is a promotional partner with the studio and
its partners and doesn’t assume any liability for this giveaway.
Tell Your Friends About HollywoodChicago.com on Facebook & Twitter
Along with entering yourself in this Hookup, tell your friends you’ve found the best source for regular entertainment giveaways by liking HollywoodChicago.com on Facebook and following us on Twitter! The more people who follow us, the better giveaways we can offer you!
 | By ADAM FENDELMAN |
Car crash or purpose collision?
I believe its by accident. You wanna know why? (waiting) I’m glad you ask. It’s because life is mystery. At least to us. Now if you wanna get biblical then that’s another story.
matched by accident or fate?
I believe they’re matched by accident.
FATE & Attraction of Like Minds
Great couples seem to foremost have a great energy about them…one that unites them beyond the physical level. It’s a magical mystical thing and there’s nothing accidental about that :-)
Fate----sort of
I believe great couples would meet by fate, but it’s sort of like a “self-fullfilling prophecy.” No matter what you do, it’s going to happen, so go about your daily life. Don’t just sit and wait for it. Move you life in the direction you want it to go and the universe will most likely provide.
Tix, please!
Would love to attend! Thanks!
fate or accident
I think it’s mostly fate. Whether you act on it is a different story.
FATE
I really don’t think anything happens by accident, so it must be fate.
Accident or Fate?
I believe it’s fate. But if you really think about it, aren’t “accident” and “fate” pretty much different ways of saying the same thing?
accident
I dont believe in fate. time and circumstance are never planned. Only by accident.
Fate & Cupid are in the Air
I think great couples are matched by fate. Things line up accordingly and it happens. THe guy that I”m currently dating, I have known for years. I always admired him, but i also admired his girlfriend because she was very nice.
While the two of us chatted over our love lives, we both found at the same time that we were single. He didn’t work out with the “sweet girL”, although he said he tried and I didn’t work out with mines. Always the jokester, while wanting to lighten the room, I made a joke about not being bitter (that it didn’t work) because ” I had managed to improve my culinary abilities by 50% in dating the last guy”! It made him laugh and I think that is when he KNEW that I was not only funny but could make fun of myself at times.
From that point on, we have been inseperable, but there is still no way that we both just happened to be single at the exact same time, after years of being involved with someone else. It was lined up perfectly and was supposed to happen. Fate has everything to do with it and so far things are going quite well. I think he’s amazing and perfect for me (and I have never said that before). He has hinted at the same.
How, out of all the guys that i dated, have I never thought that a guy was perfect for me… it was because it wasn’t supposed to happen. THe timing wasn’t right. Either I wasn’t ready, wasn’t the right girl or the guy wasn’t sweet enough or thoughtful enough for me.
This time even feels different and yes, fate played a big part in all of it. I’m convinced.