“QUEEN TO PLAY” My rating: B+
97 minutes | No MPAA rating | French with subtitles.
“Queen to Play” is a devastatingly romantic movie about a woman falling in love.
Not with a man. With the game of chess. And with herself.
Sandrine Bonnaire (“Vagabond,” “M. Hire”) is Helene, a working-class wife and mother. Her husband Ange (Francis Renaud) works construction, while Helene is a maid at a small hotel on their spectacularly beautiful island of Corsica. She also cleans houses.
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