The 29th Chicago Latino Film Festival runs Friday, April 12, through Thursday, April 25. Tickets for most screenings are $11, $10 for members of the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago; a festival pass, good for 12 general admissions, is $100, $80 for ILCC members. Following are selected screenings, all at 600 N. Michigan; for a full schedule see latinoculturalcenter.org.
Orange Honey A young soldier in 1950, working as personal secretary to a military judge of the Franco regime, is shaken when his boss orders the political execution of a young man who cared for the soldier’s sick mother. Before long the hero has been recruited by the antifascist underground, and this 2012 Spanish feature begins to partake of certain plot mechanics familiar from recent potboilers about anti-Nazi conspirators (Flame & Citron, Winter in Wartime). This is competently done, but I must confess that I had to watch it from a preview DVD with a big studio logo smack in the middle of the frame, so anyone showing up for this is likely to enjoy it more than I did. Imanol Uribe directed. In Spanish with subtitles. —J.R. Jones 101 min. Fri 4/12, 5 PM, and Sun 4/14, 9:15 PM.
