Kings and Queen (Rois et Reine)
From one of the greatest young directors working in cinema today and the winner of the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize in France, this popular and critical hit film of the 2004 international film festival circuit tells two stories. Nora is a woman who dives into memories that threaten to overwhelm her; her father is dying of cancer, but she will find relief from all the tragedies she has been through. Then there is Ismaël, a violinist caught up in a succession of burlesque adventures, and who is psychiatrically imprisoned yet always rushing, unaware, towards freedom. Mathieu Almaric, Emmanuelle Devos, Maurice Garrel and Catherine Deneuve are amongst the fantastic cast in this comic yet brutally tragic film.
Reviews
“Intelligently conceived, incisive, and immensely engaging; a brilliantly modulated tragicomedy.”
Acquarello, Stricly Film School
“Watching Arnaud Desplechin's Kings and Queen is akin to plunging into a sprawling novel whose characters, all linked by blood or bed, become old friends.”
Deborah Young, Variety
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When
7:00 PM Friday, 25 February
Buy Tickets Online
Greater Union - Cinema 2
Ticket Price
Full price $14
Industry $12
SPU Concession $10
As Part Of
General FeaturesAbout Kings and Queen
150 minutes35mm
2.35:1
Dolby Digital SRD
In French with English subtitles
Print Source
Wild Bunch
Lucie Kalmar
lkalmar@exception-wb.com
Awards
Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Etoiles d'Or de la Presse, France 2005Louis Delluc Prize 2004
Festivals
Chicago 2004New York 2004
Toronto 2004
Venice 2004
Vienna 2004
About the Director
Arnaud Desplechin
Award-winning Arnaud Desplechin was born in Roubaix, France in 1960 and graduated from the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in Paris. The writer-director of several features, his distinctive works often stand on a knife-edge between the perfectly ordinary and the disconcerting. His unpredictable narratives constantly surprise.
Filmography
Kings and Queen (2004)Playing "In the Company of Men" (2003)
Esther Kahn (2000)
My Sex Life; or How I Got into an Argument (1996)
The Sentinel (1992)
La Vie des morts (1991)