Kings And Queens (2005)

A wonderfully exhilarating melodrama from French writer/director Arnaud Desplechin, Kings And Queens weaves together two intersecting stories. There's the tale of Nora (Emmanuelle Devos), a bereaved bourgeois single mother who's on the verge of marrying for a third time, but whose father is dying of cancer - and there's the story of Ismaël (Mathieu Amalric), a neurotic violinist temporarily confined to a psychiatric clinic. He turns out to be Nora's second husband and she wants him to adopt her young son.

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