Queen of Hearts

Original title: Dronningen

2019
18
2h 7m

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7.0/10

16K

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A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.

Director
- May el-Toukhy
Writers
- Maren Louise Käehne
- May el-Toukhy
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

16K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

1,191

2,054

Director
- May el-Toukhy
Writers
- Maren Louise Käehne
- May el-Toukhy
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 26 wins & 20 nominations total

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Trivia
Trine Dyrholm talked about the sex in this movie and revealed that in the fellatio scene a prosthetic penis was used: "We had the first meeting about the nude scenes very early on with both the producer and the director. They told us what they had in mind. And we agreed that you could go to the producer along the way if there was something someone didn't want to go along with. We were even sent storyboard illustrations of the scene frame by frame, and the prosthetics that would be used were made. I would almost compare working on nude scenes here to working on a stunt scene. When you have to do that kind of scene, it's always a bit awkward, but because it was such a safe working space and everything was agreed in advance, it worked."

Goofs
During their first sex scene, from one angle Gustav holds Anne by the neck, from the other it is by the shoulder.

Quotes
Anne: Sometimes what happens and what must never happen are the same thing.
Gustav: Like you and me?

Connections
Featured in Dansk films bedste: Gak, vold og sex (2022)

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Featured review

8/10

Compelling plot, believable characters and unexpected developments. Despite that I usually avoid relational dramas, this one did its very best to counter my usual reluctance

Saw this at the Rotterdam film festival 2019, where it was part of the Big Screen Competition (another film got the price, alas). Despite that I usually do not like relational dramas, this one involved me due to a compelling plot, believable characters and unexpected developments. It is sad that it does not end well for everyone involved (no details, no spoilers), but I don't think that a different outcome would have been so much better. Main character Anne makes unwise choices, and has to live with the dire consequences, but it is easy for us to say from our comfy chairs.

All in all, unexpectedly for me with this kind of relational theme, I scored a maximum 5 for the audience award, for which it eventually received a very good 13th place (out of 162) with score 4.487 (out of 5).