The film "My King". Reviews of critics and viewers

There is an opinion that female directors, being real connoisseurs of human psychology, knowing the sense of exquisite pleasures, take up the production of paintings with a taste, so they turn out to be esthetic in content and form, and extremely emotionally penetrating. Confirmation of this statement can serve as the film "My King".

Contradication of opinions

Strangely enough, but from the ex-actress, and now the director of Maivenna Le Besco, the world cinema community did not expect anything outstanding. Her film "My King" reviews after the Cannes Film Festival got quite contradictory. The author-contributor from the Guardian appreciated the efforts of the director for a unit, but the reviewer Hollywood Reporter stayed after the premiere of the show in ecstasy, tirelessly crumbling compliments to Maivenn Le Besco. Rating IMDb melodrama is 7.00. Most of the film industry specialists, leaving favorable reviews for the project of the French stage director, called the tape "typically French."

"Typically French"

Indeed, in a sense, this is "typically French cinema", if we consider the realism of Maurice Pial as a reference. Yes, the clarification of relations, endless throwings, feasts and eroticism in the Le Besco project is just as much as necessary to maintain the reputation of Frenchness, in the superficial understanding of the Francophiles. In the overwhelming majority of the work of the director and, in general, the film "My King" (2016) reviews are praised for demonstrating how different individuals perceive love and how much they do not express it in the same way.

Plot

Many reviewers, considering the film "My King", the plot was characterized as intriguing, but somewhat confusing.

The main heroine Tony (Emmanuelle Berko), a woman lawyer of the Balzac age, meets her youthful affection Giorgio (Vincent Cassel). Between the characters, a stormy passion flares up, their impetuous novel, which the film's authors provide with a mass of worldly and funny moments, ends with a marriage ceremony and Tony's pregnancy. But the happiness of the couple, as usual, unable to withstand the yoke of everyday routine, is broken about the vicissitudes of life. Giorgio leaves Tony.

In parallel, the existence of the protagonist is periodically poisoned by the nervous Agnes, the former Giorgio's passion, who continues to maintain relations with her periodically. As a result, all ends with the fact that Tony tears the ligaments on his leg, skiing with his grown-up son. For a long time after hitting a recreational boarding house, a woman surrenders to memories.

Since this incident, and begins the narrative of the film "My King", reviews further development of events are positioned as an associative line of flashbacks.

In form and content

Few filmmakers could come to unanimous opinion about the form of the tape "My King". Critics' comments on the film determine the form of the movie like a realistic novel: the illuminated time period is quite impressive - 10 years, the five main characters are a couple of protagonists, the deviless Agnes, the sloven Solal - Tony's brother (actor Louis Garrel) and his girlfriend Isild Le Besco. In addition, according to film critics, the plot of the film contains a necessary randomness for any novel. Le Besco did not forget the leitmotif of twins: the bifunctional relationship between the caring and slow-suffering Giorgio and the mentally unbalanced Agnes in the plot become the basic mock-up of interactions between the characters. Characters episodically just perform castling within this layout, prompting the viewer to feel all the intonations and facets of such a relationship.

Actor's cinema

It is no coincidence that the film "My King" reviews reviews called absolute author's cinema. The direction of Le Besco is practically reduced to non-intervention. At the same time, the almost mechanical structuring of the narrative does not transform the melodrama into a dead apparatus, on the contrary, the follow-up of the heroes' fate with a rigid story structure is associated with the work of the fate. Wrong choice entails a full selection of tragicomic characters in their predictability situations, which the author's efforts are detailed and detailed, and quite vital and funny, without moralizing and pathos. All the features of tension, the harbingers of tragedies and the horror of everyday life are represented by a delicate hint, expressed in the language of looks, bodies, silence and heavy pauses.

The main actors

Vincent Cassel and Emmanuel Berko decorated with their presence the film "My King". The responses demonstrated by their acting skills deserved enthusiasm. Actors, reincarnated in the images of their characters, tear to pieces the passions of lovers, and after divorced partners to the pleasure of those watching.

Vincent Cassel in Le Besco's project plays toli adventurer, or restaurateur, but uniquely charismatic playboy, charming, lively and sexy burner of life. The best works in the filmography of the actor are the tapes "Jason Bourne", "Vice for export", "Black swan", "Brotherhood of the wolf", "Doberman", "Crimson rivers".

The heroine Emmanuel Berko appears before the audience as a woman lawyer, without make-up, with a fairly ordinary appearance. However, the French actress, who had time to try on the hypostasis of the screenwriter and director, is not as simple as it seems at first glance. Her talent is grandiose, which is confirmed by the deserved award - the palm branch of the Cannes Film Festival in the nomination "For the Best Actress". In the melodrama of Le Besco, the actress demonstrated an energetic emotional intensity. Berko is especially known for a wide audience for films "Mandar Street", "Clement" and mini-series "Carlos".