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04/01/06
Kings and Queen (2005)
87 %
Reviews Counted: 55 Fresh: 48 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.5/10
Consensus:
A dryly comic, stylistically brave film.
Runtime: 2 hrs 30 mins
Synopsis: KINGS AND QUEEN is the exhilarating new film from Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument, Esther Kahn). Starring two of France's greatest young actors, Emmanuelle Devos (Read My Lips) and Mathieu Amalric (My Sex Life), KINGS AND QUEEN expertly mixes comedy, tragedy... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Valentin Lelong, Jean-Paul Roussillon
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Screenwriter: Arnaud Desplechin, Roger Bohbot
Producer: Pascal Caucheteux
Composer: Gregoire Hetzel
Screenwriter: Arnaud Desplechin, Roger Bohbot
Producer: Pascal Caucheteux
Composer: Gregoire Hetzel
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06/09/05
Top Critic
If the film is less than the sum of its parts, then some of those parts are touched by genius.
05/31/05
Top Critic
a complex, character-driven film that never allows its themes - madness, love, coming of age - to become reducible to pat formulae, or over-sentimentalisation.
07/10/07
Its novelistic breadth, pitched intensity and on-the-fly shooting style pull the viewer smack-dab into the middle of these lives.
03/01/07
A highly unstable compound of melodrama and offbeat comedy that elicits more shrugs of confusion than sighs of satisfaction
08/27/06
Desplechin's big, bold, iconoclastic feature Rois et Reine is a disconcerting film that can turn your head at the oddest moments.
06/30/06
Funny, absurd, often mocking itself and always quoting cultural history.
06/30/06
I can't quite get my head around it; Ismael is too cartoony and Nora is too icy.
03/10/06
[M]ixes with aplomb equal measures of intellectual screwball comedy and dark metaphysical tragedy, though part of the joke may be that one often can't tell which is which...
01/03/06
the film proves, at the very least, that Desplechin is a director that garners due attention
12/02/05
This is a first-rate melo-dramedy under the influence of director Arnaud Desplechin.
12/02/05
While these characters' lives are melodramatic, individual scenes burst with kinetic energy from fast editing and an script that deftly underscores the destructive nature of male-female relationships.
10/29/05
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09/26/05
Top Critic
It is well-acted and written with a rigorous effort to skirt cliche, and it has the savor of real life throughout.
09/16/05
There's a looseness to the camera work and storytelling that's appealingly breezy: This film feels, for better or worse, like real life.
08/26/05
His scenes ripple with undercurrents of awkward emotions... creating a film both devastating and uplifting, but he passes no judgments.
08/25/05
Kings and Queen, full of passion and humor, madness and grief, is close to a masterpiece.
08/18/05
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