Rois et reine (English title: Kings and Queen) is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor. In addition, it was nominated for César awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actress and Best Writing.
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenss...
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Rois et reine (English title: Kings and Queen) is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor. In addition, it was nominated for César awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actress and Best Writing.
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora...
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