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Kings and Queen 2004 123movies

Kings and Queen 2004 123movies

Sep. 03, 2004150 Min.
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Watch: Rois et Reine 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – The stories of Nora during a brief period when her father falls ill and of Ismaël while involuntarily committed to a mental institution for observation. Nora’s in her 30s and has loved four men – her son Elias, Elias’s deceased father, her own father, and Ismaël, a musician given to odd behavior with whom she lived seven years. She will soon marry a businessman. Faced with her father’s death, Nora seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias; a great deal else roils from her past. Ismaël has his own challenges, not the least of which are his feelings toward adopting Elias and his meeting Arielle, another patient. Ismaël’s surface shows a lot; Nora’s, very little..
Plot: 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present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn.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 learns that her father’s digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father’s death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.
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Reviews:

Beautifully Fascinating Deconstruction of Intersecting Families
“Kings and Queen (Rois et reine)” is a deceptively beautiful looking exploration of the differences between appearances and substance.

Our first impressions of each parallel character who seems to have no relation with any other character undergo a complete turn-around by the time we have finished circling around them in time and space at the end of the film, especially as we begin to realize they are unreliable, self-serving narrators of their own experiences.

Each person is part of a very modern blended family, both by genetics and selection, and faces the most quotidian of life cycle decisions — life, birth, marriage, paying bills, parent/child responsibilities, Laingian sanity and particularly death — and makes a different choice how to handle them, whether active or passive, peremptorily or as fate.

But each choice leads them to the next unexpected plateau of choices with guilt hanging on each move. For each, doing the right thing means something completely different as each responds differently to an emotional and physical crisis.

Though psychoanalysis is drolly mocked as just another philosophy, each character may be eccentric or seriously crazy and undergoes Freudian traumatizations by family in casually cruel ways that alternate between funny and shocking (and sometimes absurd).

Director/co-writer Arnaud Desplechin revels in the diversity of his characters, so that as their orbits collide they can hardly communicate because their frames of reference are so different.

The acting brilliantly matches the unexpected revelations that flash back to let us know how each character got to be this person and the transformations to where they are going. Emmanuelle Devos as “Nora” lusciously fills the screen even as we find that her nonchalant beauty masks the devastation she leaves in her wake as it helps her use others for her selfish needs.

Desplechin has frequently cited Woody Allen as an influence (and “Seinfeld”), and Mathieu Amalric’s Ismaël is a tribute to that talkative, intellectual Jewish persona and Philip Roth is mentioned as well, though this character is much more up on hip pop music and surprisingly matures as he gains far more humanity than his New York inspirations.

The film is long and slow, but curiosity about how each character got to where the film started is involving.

It’s impossible to keep up with all the erudite references to poetry (Desplechin says the title comes from a chess metaphor in a French poem: “King without kingdom/ Queen without a scene/ Castle broken/ Bishop betrayed/ Fool as a brave man”), literature, mythology, art, music and film (“Moon River” seems to be used frequently these days).

Eric Gautier’s cinematography is sensual and is particularly dreamy when an awful event occurs.

The production design creates illustrative environments for each person and family, as every object around each character has ironic counterpoint to the dialog.

The soundtrack eclectically extends from electronica to klezmer to hip hop to singer/songwriters Paul Weller and Randy Newman to classical and more that reflect the characters’ psychological mise en scenes.

Review By: noralee
All Queen’s Men
“Rois et reine” aka “Kings and Queen” (2004) directed by Arnaud Desplechin is a most unusual film that mixes expertly comical and tragic, unbearable and optimistic, life and death that are intertwined in the story of two former lovers whose lives have crossed once more when they least expected. Nora (Devos) has to take care of her dying father. Ismael (Almaric), a talented but neurotic musician (Roman Polansky + Woody Allen) is mistakenly committed to a mental hospital under the care of a clinical psychiatrist, forever young and still the most beautiful woman in the world, Catherine Denueve. (“Do you know that you are very beautiful”? – asked Ismael. “I’ve been told”, smiles she). I still think about the movie – the complicated relationships between one woman and several men in her life – how much she affected them, sometimes, with tragic consequences. This is also the movie about perception – how big is the difference between the way we see ourselves and the others see us and what they think of us in reality. It is a movie about love – is it always blind? Is it possible to love deeply and see with the clear eyes? I was totally engrossed and heartbroken by some scenes involving Devos’s caring for her dying father, by the flashbacks that tell about her relationship with the father of her son, and next minute I was laughing out loud following the Almaric’s ordeal in a mental hospital and his attempts to escape. The movie could’ve been a gem but it is too long, has too many characters that were perhaps very interesting but I never knew what happened to them and it could be confusing due to its broken narrative which was OK by me but the final result even compelling and memorable was not completely satisfying. Both Mathieu Almaric and Manu Devos are marvelously talented actors and they were the main reason that overlong and confusing movie worked. I hope to see both Almaric and Devos in many more movies. I remember Devos since the first movie I saw her in – “Sur Mes Levres” and I knew then that she had all potentials to become a great actress. Her acting in “Rois et reine” confirmed my first impression.
Review By: Galina_movie_fan

Other Information:

Original Title Rois et Reine
Release Date 2004-09-03
Release Year 2004

Original Language fr
Runtime 2 hr 30 min (150 min) (France), 2 hr 30 min (150 min) (USA), 2 hr 30 min (150 min) (Argentina)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Unrated
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Arnaud Desplechin
Writer Arnaud Desplechin, Roger Bohbot
Actors Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc
Country France
Awards 9 wins & 18 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision 250D 5246)
Cinematographic Process Super 35
Printed Film Format 35 mm

Kings and Queen 2004 123movies
Kings and Queen 2004 123movies
Original title Rois et Reine
TMDb Rating 7.185 65 votes

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