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\"My<\/span>MY KING<\/h2>\n

| 2016 – 125′ – Drama \/ Romance –
\nWritten and Directed by\u00a0Ma\u00efwenn.
\nStarring\u00a0Vincent Cassel,\u00a0Emmanuelle Bercot,\u00a0Louis Garrel, Isild Le Besco.
\nOfficial Selection COLCOA 2016<\/strong> – Official Competition Cannes International Film Festival (Winner Best Actress for Emmanuelle Bercot).
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Film Movement release.|<\/span><\/p>\n

This intimate take on a rollercoaster relationship puts all the tropes of romance on its head by looking at it through the eyes of a woman seduced by the male equivalent of a blonde bombshell. Licking her wounds in a convalescent center after an accident-on-purpose on the ski slopes, fortyish lawyer Tony looks back on a tumultuous decade with her dream guy, Georgio. An effortlessly charming restaurateur, Georgio views the world as a stage upon which he is performing his life. Tony obliges with five-star reviews, at least while the passions are in full flush. Only later, when the couple gets down to the business of building a life together, will Georgio\u2019s wolfish ego and his inability to fully let go of his womanizing past, begin to tarnish the shine. But even if theirs is a doomed relationship, Tony is about to learn that it doesn\u2019t always have to be this way. Vincent Cassel is at his raffish best, and Emmanuelle Bercot won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her heartbreaking portrayal of a woman desperate to fall out of love.
\nWith MY KING, her fourth feature film, it\u2019s perhaps time to stop calling Ma\u00efwenn an actress-turned-filmmaker and start calling her simply a filmmaker. Coming off her grittier Cannes Jury Prize-winning ensemble drama POLISSE(COLCOA 2011), Ma\u00efwenn has put her spin on the classic French romance, and was nominated for the Palme d\u2019Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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