Kings and Queen
2004 · Movie · 150 min. · France
This film expertly mixes comedy, tragedy and melodrama to tell the emotionally gripping story of the intersecting lives of two former lovers. Nora is a woman in her mid-thirties who wants people to believe that her life is going just the way she wants. But a look below the surface shows this isn't quite the case; she's been divorced twice, her latest relationship is on the rocks, her ten-year-old son, Elias, is becoming increasingly withdrawn, and her father is in poor health. When Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer and he may only have a few days left to live, she desperately wants to turn to Ismael, her second husband. But Ismael is having a crisis of his own after a pattern of increasingly strange behavior has led him to an involuntary stay in a mental hospital.
Direction Arnaud Desplechin
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Emmanuelle Devos · Mathieu Amalric · Magalie Woch · Maurice Garrel · Nathalie Boutefeu · Jean-Paul Roussillon · Hippolyte Girardot · Noémie Lvovsky · Elsa Wolliaston
Soundtrack Grégoire Hetzel
Screenplay Arnaud Desplechin · Roger Bohbot
Cinematography Eric Gautier
Original title Rois et reine
7.0
700 votes (FilmAffinity)
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