Kings and Queen is at times compelling, at times devastating, and at times long-winded.
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08/18/05
Kings and Queen (2005)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:48
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A dryly comic, stylistically brave film.
Theatrical Release:2004
Box Office: $150,626
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... [More]
Starring: Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Valentin Lelong
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
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Reviews for Kings and Queen
Top CriticBoth leisurely and breathtakingly immediate.
07/05/05
It's a puzzle of a film, but not the kind that intimidates you with inscrutability so much as one that beckons you into its antic eccentricity.
06/24/05
Top Critic[Desplechin] gives these characters the time to develop, to display their nuances, to establish their relationships with each other, to talk out their destinies.
06/24/05
Top CriticSomewhere buried in the plodding morass of Kings and Queen exists a taut, twisting psychological puzzler.
06/22/05
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06/09/05
The film is delectable and keeps you eager to see what's served next, but also is ridiculously rich, overly long and difficult to digest. Still, it's a feast you won't want to miss.
06/03/05
Top CriticA richly observed study of the sticky complexities of family dynamics.
06/03/05
Top CriticIf the film is less than the sum of its parts, then some of those parts are touched by genius.
05/31/05
Devos, in her calm, intelligent way, leads you through this rock pile of intimacies and enigmas with a magnetism that fastens you even as the fatigue becomes laborious.
05/30/05
The movie, directed by Arnaud Desplechin and written by him with Roger Bohbot, begins as such a straightforward portrait of ordinary life that it's unsettling to find layer after layer of reality peeled away.
05/27/05
Top CriticKings and Queen is a marvelously textured and civilized study of two tormented souls finding redemption not in each other, but in themselves and in other people.
05/26/05
Top Criticit is the story, with its sleight of hand manner of making you believe one thing only to have the truth be something very different, that makes Kings and Queen special.
05/23/05
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05/21/05
There's no ready capsule description of Kings and Queen, but its fluid, dynamic approach to melodrama and two compelling central performances create an impressive portrait of intertwined lives.
05/21/05
The film is a soap opera that through layering and texture is made into something rich, strange, and unforgettable.
05/20/05
Top CriticAn intelligent story is being told here in a very artful manner. That's quite a worthy accomplishment. I think.
05/20/05
Category-defying film that's as smart and emotionally resonant as it is entertaining.
05/19/05
Top CriticContemporary and specific ... but the melodramas also play out on a universal plane, like the lives of the gods.
05/19/05
This enjoyable French pic welds together drama, melodrama and comedy in a blend with potentially strong European audience appeal.
05/19/05
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