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Actors: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Maurice Garrel, Hippolyte Girardot, Noémie Lvovsky, Catherine Rouvel
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Kings and Queen |
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KINGS AND QUEEN (Rois et Reine) is a French movie cowritten and directed by Arnaud Desplechin in 2004. Mathieu Amalric won the French Academy award in the Best Actor category for this film.
Nora is a 35 years old woman in charge of an art gallery in Paris. Her 10 years old boy lives with her father in Grenoble since the death of his father. Now Nora is visiting them and learns that her father suffers from a devastating stomach cancer and has only a few days left to live. She will spend the next days with him trying to reorganize her emotional life and the future of her son during her father's agony.
Meanwhile, Ismaël, Nora's ex-companion, must face an embarrassing situation. He's been put into a mental institution and is breaking his back to try to convince the different psychiatrists he meets that he's not insane. But his relative eccentricity is not an asset in this situation and he must ask his lawyer to help him.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Kings and Queen |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Family, caring for sick?
Yes
Who is sick?
- Father
because he/she is
- physically ill
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- mental patient
Battle with shrink/bum?
- battle with a psychiatrist
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- small businessman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Paris
Misc setting
- mental hospital
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- thoughtful
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- French
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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