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QUEEN TO PLAY<\/h2>\nQUEEN TO PLAY<\/h2>\n| 2011\u00a0 – 97′ – Drama \/ Romance – Oscar winner Kevin Kline (A FISH CALLED WANDA) and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire (VAGABOND, LA CEREMONIE)\u00a0\u00a0square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. Lovely, repressed and quietly intelligent, French chambermaid H\u00e9l\u00e8ne (Bonnaire) comes upon a couple (THE L WORD’s Jennifer Beals and\u00a0MARIE ANTOINETTE\u2019s Dominic Gould) engaging in an intense chess match, and discovers she has a knack for the game. This obsession\u2014much to the chagrin of her husband and teenage daughter\u2014leads her to seek the clandestine tutelage of a reclusive American doctor (Kline, in his first French-speaking role)\u2014a liaison that radically transforms both of their lackluster lives. Based on Bertina Henrichs\u2019 acclaimed novel\u00a0La Joueuse d\u2019echec\u00a0(The Chess Player), QUEEN TO PLAY\u00a0is the auspicious feature film debut of French director and screenwriter Caroline Bottaro.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n QUEEN TO PLAY | 2011\u00a0 – 97′ – Drama \/ Romance – Written by Caroline Bottaro and Bertina Heinrichs. Directed by Caroline Bottaro. Starring\u00a0\u00a0Sandrine Bonnaire,\u00a0Kevin Kline,\u00a0Val\u00e9rie Lagrange, Francis Renaud, Jennifer Beals, Alice Pol, Alexandra Gentil. Official Selections COLCOA French Film Festival, Tribeca International Film Festival. In French with English subtitles. A Zeitgeist Films release.| Trailer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,11,45,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tafff","category-drama","category-romance","category-women-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15087,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions\/15087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by Caroline Bottaro and Bertina Heinrichs.
\nDirected by Caroline Bottaro.
\nStarring\u00a0\u00a0Sandrine Bonnaire,\u00a0Kevin Kline,\u00a0Val\u00e9rie Lagrange, Francis Renaud, Jennifer Beals, Alice Pol, Alexandra Gentil.
\nOfficial Selections COLCOA French Film Festival<\/strong>, Tribeca International Film Festival.
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Zeitgeist Films release.|<\/span><\/p>\nTrailer<\/a><\/h4>\n
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