This is part of Chicagoist's coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival. Most films on the subject of divorce eagerly present simple, straightforward reasons for the dissolution of a marriage. He works too much. She’s frigid. He can’t keep his hands off the ladies (or she can’t stay away from other guys.) The stress of childlessness is too much. And so on. But Radu Muntean, director and co-writer of Tuesday, After Christmas, knows that offering such reasons is too easy--in effect they're simply lies we tell ourselves as talismans against the uncertainties of sustaining relationships. “If only Couple A hadn’t done X, Y, or Z,” the thinking goes, “they’d still be together.” But real life isn’t like that. more ›

This is part of Chicagoist's continuing coverage of the 45th Chicago International Film Festival. more ›