Queen to Play
6.8 /10 1 Votes
69% Rotten Tomatoes Director Caroline Bottaro Initial DVD release May 31, 2011 Duration | 6.8/10 IMDb 70% Metacritic Genre Drama Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date August 5, 2009 (2009-08-05) (France) Based on La Joueuse d’echecs by Bertina Henrichs Writer Caroline Bottaro, Bertina Henrichs (novel) Cast (Hélène), (Kröger), (Maria), (Ange), Alexandra Gentil (Lisa), (Natalia)Similar movies Stephen King's It , Independence Day , The Seventh Seal , The Way Way Back , Happy-Go-Lucky , Cashback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Queen to Play (original title Joueuse, the feminine form of “player”) is a 2009 French-German film directed by Caroline Bottaro.
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Synopsis
The film stars Sandrine Bonnaire as a French chambermaid on the island of Corsica. She develops an interest in chess. She has been cleaning the house of an American doctor (played by Kevin Kline in his first French-speaking role), and he begins helping her practice and improve. She must deal with her growing fascination with the game and with her husband and teenaged daughter.
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Release
The film had its world premiere on April 25, 2009 in both New York City and Los Angeles, at the Tribeca Film Festival and the ColCoa Film Festival respectively. The national release in France was on August 5, 2009 and in Germany on January 7, 2010. The film is distributed in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films and was released there on April 1, 2011.
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