A long, messy cinematic novel full of hate, love, murder, ghosts, madness, poetry and Catherine Deneuve.
Kings and Queen(Rois et reine)
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France · 2004
2h 30m
Director Arnaud Desplechin
Starring Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Maurice Garrel
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Parallel storylines follow the lives of two ex-lovers, Nora and Ismaël. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced with a son currently spending time with her cancer-stricken father. As she visits her family, she reaches out to her second husband, a talented musician committed to a mental hospital and plotting his escape.
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This movie, however incomplete and frustrating, is also fully alive and extraordinarily intelligent.
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
It's hugely ambitious, with a sweeping range of character types, frequently shifting moods, stylistic flourishes of many kinds, and some mighty wry satire, aimed largely at the world of psychotherapy.
This enjoyable French pic welds together drama, melodrama and comedy.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
Arnaud Desplechin's sprawling drama exudes a go-for-broke determination that is frustrating and exhilarating.
This extravagant family melodrama, one of the highlights of last year's New York Film Festival, runs two and a half hours and never lags, so moment-to-moment enthralling are Desplechin's narrative gambits, as well as his reckless eccentricity.
The kind of brainy human comedy that only this formidable French auteur seems capable of making.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Late in his new film Kings and Queen, the wildly gifted French director Arnaud Desplechin yanks the rug from under his characters and sends both them and us reeling.
Though frequently dazzling, Kings And Queen proves that a bunch of punchy singles don't necessarily make an album.
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