Kings and Queen (US Version) DVD Region 1

A huge hit in France, where it was nominated for seven Cesar Awards (the equivalent of Hollywood's Oscars), KINGS AND QUEEN is an intelligent, extremely entertaining and complex film featuring a vastly talented cast. Cleverly mixing genres, director and cowriter Arnaud Desplechin (ESTHER KAHN, MY SEX LIFE...OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT) tells the story of an embattled, extraordinary single mother named Nora, played by the ravishing Emmanuelle Devos (READ MY LIPS). When Nora visits her father, Louis (Maurice Garrel), in Grenoble, where he is taking care of her son, Elias (Valentin Lelong), for the summer, she is devastated to learn that Louis is seriously ill. The impending death of her father, a successful writer, sends Nora seeking her troubled sister, Chloe (Nathalie Boutefeu), and one of Nora's ex-husbands, Ismael (Mathieu Amalric), an eccentric violist who has recently been committed to an institution. Meanwhile, the manic Ismael, who has a tight bond with Elias, develops an unusual relationship with the suicidal Arielle (Magali Woch) in the hospital, where he is treated by the beautiful and alluring Madame Vasset (Catherine Deneuve) as his drug-addicted lawyer, Mamanne (Hippolyte Girardot), tries to get him released. Compelling and funny, heartbreaking and tragic, KINGS AND QUEEN is a highly original, thoroughly satisfying drama that plays much faster than its 150 minutes.

"[A] shocking deus ex machina follows a welter of narrative complication and piercing drama shot through with a rich vein of absurdist humor." - Manohla, Dargis (Film Critic), New York Times, 05/13/2005

"[S]prawling and exuberant....KINGS AND QUEEN burrows into your psyche and stays there for days..." - Carina, Chocano (Los Angeles Times Critic), Los Angeles Times, 05/20/2005

"[G]ripping, highly original....Desplechin offers that most old-form of balms -- compassion." - Lisa, Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly Critic), Entertainment Weekly, 05/27/2005

"[The] jazzy, free-association structure allows some rich riffs on big themes like death, love, fatherhood and suicide..." - Edward, Lawrenson (Sight And Sound Critic), Uncut, 07/01/2005

"It is good to see Desplechin return to the joie de vivre of film-making..." - Demetrios, Matheou (Film Critic), Sight and Sound, 08/01/2005

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Product Title:	Kings and Queen (US Version) Kings and Queen (US Version) Kings and Queen (US Version) Kings and Queen (US Version) Kings and Queen (US Version)
Artist Name(s):	Catherine Deneuve (Actor) | Mathieu Amalric (Actor) | Hippolyte Girardot (Actor) | Emmanuelle Devos (Actor) | Jean-Paul Roussillon (Actor) | Nathalie Boutefeu (Actor) | Maurice Garrel (Actor) | Magali Woch (Actor) | Noemie Lvovsky (Actor) | Valentin Lelong (Actor) | Roger Bohbot | James DeMonaco 嘉芙蓮丹露 (Actor) | 馬蒂爾艾馬力 (Actor) | Hippolyte Girardot (Actor) | Emmanuelle Devos (Actor) | Jean-Paul Roussillon (Actor) | Nathalie Boutefeu (Actor) | Maurice Garrel (Actor) | Magali Woch (Actor) | Noemie Lvovsky (Actor) | Valentin Lelong (Actor) | Roger Bohbot | James DeMonaco 嘉芙莲丹露 (Actor) | 马蒂尔艾马力 (Actor) | Hippolyte Girardot (Actor) | Emmanuelle Devos (Actor) | Jean-Paul Roussillon (Actor) | Nathalie Boutefeu (Actor) | Maurice Garrel (Actor) | Magali Woch (Actor) | Noemie Lvovsky (Actor) | Valentin Lelong (Actor) | Roger Bohbot | James DeMonaco カトリーヌ・ドヌーブ (Actor) | Mathieu Amalric (Actor) | Hippolyte Girardot (Actor) | Emmanuelle Devos (Actor) | Jean-Paul Roussillon (Actor) | Nathalie Boutefeu (Actor) | Maurice Garrel (Actor) | Magali Woch (Actor) | Noemie Lvovsky (Actor) | Valentin Lelong (Actor) | Roger Bohbot | James DeMonaco Catherine Deneuve (Actor) | Mathieu Amalric (Actor) | Hippolyte Girardot (Actor) | Emmanuelle Devos (Actor) | Jean-Paul Roussillon (Actor) | Nathalie Boutefeu (Actor) | Maurice Garrel (Actor) | Magali Woch (Actor) | Noemie Lvovsky (Actor) | Valentin Lelong (Actor) | Roger Bohbot | James DeMonaco
Director:	Arnaud Desplechin Arnaud Desplechin Arnaud Desplechin Arnaud Desplechin Arnaud Desplechin
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Release Date:	2005-10-25
UPC Code:	720917547329
Language:	French
Subtitles:	English
Country of Origin:	France
Picture Format:	NTSC What is it?
Color Information:	Color
Disc Format(s):	DVD
Region Code:	1 - USA, Canada, U.S. Territories What is it?
Rating:	Not Rated
Publisher:	Wellspring
Package Weight:	90 (g)
Shipment Unit:	1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.:	1004379849

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

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