Oct. 16--This year's film festival offers a "Spotlight Architecture" sidebar, and one of its highlights is this witty valentine to a most unusual housing development in Copenhagen. The so-called "8 House," a sly urban mountain village of an apartment complex, was designed by Bjarke Ingels as an ode to democratic, egalitarian community, with a kindergarten on one floor and a fascinating collision of tight confines and open vistas. Co-directors Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine make wonderful use of their 85 minutes, turning "The Infinite Happiness" into a cinematic apartment crawl, blessedly free of the customary documentary trappings. In Danish with English subtitles.
2:15 p.m. Saturday (repeats 3 p.m. Monday), AMC River East 21, 322 E. Illinois St. Tickets $11-$14 at chicagofilmfestival.com. Running time: 1:25.
-Michael Phillips
