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My Golden Days
Why this pick
Desplechin again combines restless intelligence, tangled romantic memory, and sharply drawn family feeling, with the same ability to make emotional chaos funny, bruising, and alive.
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MOVIE2004 2h 30m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Its large, combative family ensemble shares Kings and Queen’s literary energy, tonal daring, and fascination with love expressed through wit, resentment, illness, and interruption.
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A Summer's Tale
Why this pick
Rohmer’s delicate verbal sparring and unstable romantic geometry offer a lighter, more summery version of the same pleasure in contradictory people thinking themselves into trouble.
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Late August, Early September
Why this pick
An intimate, unsentimental portrait of friends facing illness, changing loyalties, and adulthood; it matches the film’s emotional density without simplifying anyone’s motives.
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Father of My Children
Why this pick
Its compassionate attention to family life under strain, and its clear-eyed refusal of melodramatic shortcuts, echo the tenderness beneath Kings and Queen’s volatile surface.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Emmanuelle Devos
Nora Cotterelle
Mathieu Amalric
Ismaël Vuillard
Jean-Paul Roussillon
Abel Vuillard, le père d'Ismaël
Catherine Rouvel
Monique Vuillard, la mère d'Ismaël
Maurice Garrel
Louis Jennsens, le père de Nora
Magali Woch
Arielle Phénix, la « chinoise »
Catherine Deneuve
Mme Vasset
Hippolyte Girardot
Maître Marc Mamanne