Kings and Queen

IMDb link: 0344273
IMDb rating: 7 (4,154 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Rabourdin, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc and others

Release date: 22 Dec 2004
Release year: 2004
Runtime: 150 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: cancer, terminal cancer, psychiatric hospital, looking up someone's skirt, reference to the baron in the trees the novel, tearing a page from a book, burning pages of a book, reference to apollinaire, greek mythology, reference to seneca

Plot:

In Paris, the thirty-five year old Nora Cotterelle has been the director of a famous art gallery for six months and will marry the wealthy owner Jean-Jacques within the next weeks. When she travels to Grenoble to meet her beloved son Elias that is spending vacation with her father, the professor and writer Louis Jenssens, she discovers that Louis has a terminal cancer, and she decides to stay in Grenoble nursing her father. Nora recalls her relationship with Elias' father Pierre and with her viola player lover Ismael Vuillard, who raised Elias for seven years and for whom her son has a great affection. Meanwhile, Ismael is interned in a psychiatric hospital against his will. Along the days, Nora and Ismael discover cruel secrets about their families' relationships.

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