Queen to Play

Name: Queen to Play
Genre: Drama
Released: April 1, 2011
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 70

2011

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: April 1, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid Hélène discovers she has a knack for chess. This obsession—much to the chagrin of her husband and teenaged daughter—leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor—a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. (Zeitgeist Films)

Director: Caroline Bottaro

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Stephen Holden

Mar 31, 2011

In small but significant ways, Queen to Play defies expectations. It dangles the possibility of an affair between Hélène and Kröger in games that the film likens to courtship rituals in a classic screwball comedy. Read full review

Calvin Wilson

Jun 16, 2011

Bonnaire, whose films include "Vagabond" and "Monsieur Hire," gets Helene just right, registering her joys and disappointments with finesse. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Mar 28, 2011

Like Sebastian Silva's "The Maid," Queen posits a radically different approach to class and gender empowerment. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

Mar 29, 2011

The supporting cast is uniformly fine, but the film rests on the delicate shoulders of Bonnaire, who carries it with a soulful, magnetic presence. Read full review

J.R. Jones

May 5, 2011

Subplots involving the heroine's resentful husband and rebellious teenage daughter never amount to much, though the story builds toward a satisfactory, if formulaic, climax when the woman dares to compete in a tournament against a succession of smug bourgeois men. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 31, 2011

Queen To Play has a winning heroine, who fantasizes about being special and then works hard to make it happen. Too bad the rest of the movie is so common. Read full review

Nick Schager

Mar 29, 2011

Queen to Play does slightly buck convention by depicting intellectual development (rather than lovey-dovey triumph) as the key to reshaping identity, as well as a form of class advancement and spiritual enlightenment. Such notions, however, are drowned out by deafeningly creaky conventions of cutesy self-discovery. Read full review

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