Mon Roi (My King)

2015

124 mins

Directed by Maïwenn
72%
78%
Drama
Romance
Award Winner

French actor-director Maïwenn (Polisse) teams up with Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Bercot in this modern tale of an intricate and... More

French actor-director Maïwenn (Polisse) teams up with Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Bercot in this modern tale of an intricate and passionate bourgeois romance, for which Bercot was awarded Best Actress at Cannes 2015.

"Tony (Bercot) is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio (Cassel). Why did they love each other? Who is this man that she loved so deeply? How did she allow herself to submit to this suffocating and destructive passion? For Tony, a difficult process of healing is in front of her, physical work which may finally set her free…" (Cannes Film Festival)

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Mon Roi (My King) | Ratings & Reviews

72_%75 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
78_%543 reviews
Audience score rating

"Maiwenn is concerned first and foremost with her characters, who rank among the most vividly realized of any to have graced the screen in recent memory..."

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Variety

"An unendurable confection of complacent and self-admiring nonsense: shallow, narcissistic, histrionic and fake."

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The Guardian

"A bloated but vivid — and quintessentially French — romantic drama."

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Hollywood Reporter

Mon Roi (My King) | Details

Directed by

Cast

Chrystèle Saint Louis Augustin

Patrick Raynal

Yann Goven

Paul Hamy

Award winner: Winner of Best Actress (Emmanuelle Bercot), 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Runtime: 124
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country of origin: France