Queen to Play

Genre: Comedy

Release Year: 2011

Runtime: 98

Language: French

Director: Caroline Bottaro

Plot: Oscar winner Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond) square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid H̩l̬ne (Bonnaire) discovers she has a knack for chess. This obsession Рmuch to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter Рleads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kline, in his first French-speaking role) Рa liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives.

 

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