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Rois et reine (English title: Kings and Queen) is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor. In addition, it was nominated for César awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Most Promising Actress and Best Writing.
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father's death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.
Well it seems to me
Within us all there lies the key
To unlock the mystery
That with in our center
All the love in the world resides
But still we search for it on the outside
And deep within your soul
There’s a castle made of gold
And if you let your drawbridge down, down, down, down
All the riches would be found
We are all kings and queens
But we walk this earth like beggars
The need for sweetness
Lord knows I cannot dispute
But it’s like we put sugar on the sweetest fruit
And I’ve seen the brightest light shine from the poorest people I’ve
Love’s something you’ve got to give, not just something you get
And deep within your soul
There’s a castle made of gold
And if you let your drawbridge down, down, down, down
All the riches would be found
We are all kings and queens
But we walk this earth like beggars
We are all kings and queens
But we walk this earth like beggars
We are all kings and queens