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Rendezvous In Chicago
Directed by Michael Smith
Narrative Feature
U.S.A. | 69 min | 2018
RENDEZVOUS IN CHICAGO is a short comedic feature film comprised of three vignettes corresponding to the beginning, middle and end stages of a relationship: Paul (Kevin Wehby), a charming young man, attempts to pick up Delaney (Clare Cooney), a bookish grad student, in an otherwise empty wine bar.
She turns the tables on him in a most unexpected manner. Rob (Matthew Sherbach) and Andy (Rashaad Hall) are enjoying the bliss of newly formed couplehood. Rob has planned to propose marriage as they walk from their apartment to the lakeshore nearby, but has he made the right decision?
Julie (Nina Ganet) comes home from work early to find her boyfriend, Wyatt (Shane Simmons), in bed with another woman. After violently ejecting them from her apartment, Julie begins to fall in love with . . . you the viewer!
‘Rendezvous in Chicago’ feels like eavesdropping on clever conversations
By Richard Roeper, 2/8/2019
Michael Smith
Director
“One of the Windy City’s finest filmmakers.”
– Matt Fagerholm, RogerEbert.com
Michael Glover Smith’s debut feature, COOL APOCALYPSE (2015), won multiple awards at festivals across the U.S. and screened at Chicago’s prestigious Gene Siskel Film Center and Movies in the Parks’ Onscreen Local Film Showcase before being released on home video by Emphasis Entertainment. His second feature, MERCURY IN RETROGRADE, starring Roxane Mesquida and Najarra Townsend, won the top prizes at the 2018 Tallahassee Film Festival and the 2017 Full Bloom Film Festival and was the subject of a rave review by the Chicago Sun-Times’ Richard Roeper who wrote: “Smith has a deft touch for dialogue, creating six distinct characters who look and sound like people we know…a smart, funny, quietly effective and authentic slice of older millennial life.” Smith was a recipient of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Star Filmmaker award in 2017 and made Newcity Chicago’s “Film 50” list in 2018. He teaches film history and aesthetics at several Chicago-area colleges and is the founder and sole author of the film blog whitecitycinema.com.
Filmmaker Introduction
RENDEZVOUS IN CHICAGO
Film Information
Directors: Michael Smith
Country: U.S.A.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Runtime: 69 min.
Rated: R
Credits
Producers: Layne Marie Williams
Writer: Michael Smith
Director of Photography: Alex Halstead
Editor: Eric Marsh
Haydee Politoff
Rashaad Hall
Clare Cooney
Nina Ganet
Matthew Sherbach
Maggie Scrantom
Shane Simmons
Chelsea David
