Zeitgeist Films Checkmate ‘Queen of Play’

Date:

August 11, 2010

I sort of lost track on this Euro item which at one point had Bruno Ganz set to star opposite Sandrine Bonnaire. Looks like Queen of Play would eventually pick up Kevin Kline; the actor got to practice his French in a feature film for a first time. A Tribeca 2009 entry, this centers on a hotel chambermaid (Bonnaire) whose growing interest in chess is nurtured by her American employer (Kline).

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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