The director May el-Toukhy opens "Queen of Hearts" with a neat structural trick that the viewer will only apprehend later in the film, a scene depicting its central couple calmly preparing to address a crisis. After a title card shot, the movie gets down to depicting Anne (Trine Dyrholm), Peter. About Audience Score. "Queen of Hearts" has the same sort of magical romanticism as "Moonstruck," but in a more gentle key.

Queen of Hearts is a tragedy about poor choices and the reality that we can never truly know the people close to us. We think we do, and we so desperately want to believe it to be the case, but their truths ultimately belong to them alone. "Queen of Hearts" is also the kind of movie that throws a number of pseudo-provocative and negligibly complicating plot details at viewers — including But there's ultimately not much in "Queen of Hearts" to prompt a serious consideration of Anne's actions. All three of the film's principal cast members.

Queen of Hearts

Denmark's submission for Best International Feature at the upcoming Academy Awards, Queen of Hearts tells the story of a woman whose idealized existence is in jeopardy after she has an affair with her estranged step-son. Movie Review Queen: Kangana Ranaut revels in her solidly-written role, and delivers a first rate, heart-felt performance. Star Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao; Lisa Haydon. QUEEN OF HEARTS is a mystical fable of love and revenge, seen through the imaginative eyes of a child. Now grown, Eddie (Ian Hawkes) narrates the Barbariccia. There may be a few Italian immigrant family cliches along the way, but the characters in QUEEN OF HEARTS are treated sensitively, with.

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MOVIES. 'Queen of Hearts': Film Review The wages of familial sin and deceit are on full display in Queen of Hearts, a potent Danish drama that peels back the veneer of an ultra-civilized Scandinavian lifestyle to take a dark look at some very out-of-bounds behavior. Queen of Hearts, unfortunately, works the opposite way.

Queen of Hearts feeds off its slow pace as it slowly descends into the type of film that makes your stomach turn. This list is for movies, shorts, or mini-series directed or co-directed by women. Dronningen (Queen of Hearts), the controversial incest movie from Denmark that is racking up awards, has lots of nudity from Trine Dyrholm. The first nude scene occurs half an hour in as Trine poses topless in front of a mirror.