Queen of Hearts

Dronningen

Director: May el-Toukhy
Country: Denmark, Sweden

2019 | 127 min. | Danish, Swedish
Subtitles: German, English
FSK 16

Cast_ Trine Dyrholm , Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper Screenplay_ Maren Louise Käehne, May el-Toukhy Camera_ Jasper Spanning Producer_ Caroline Blanco, René Ezra Rights_ Vuelta Entertainment

A modern classic of European cinema: Trine Dyrholm plays a successful lawyer who ventures to the extremes of desire.

Anne specializes in cases of physical and sexual abuse. She leads a comfortable, bourgeois life with her family. That all collapses overnight when she begins an intense physical affair with Gustav – her 16-year-old stepson.

The ineluctable pull of this highly controversial story is entirely the merit of Trine Dyrholm’s nuanced performance. Through her collaboration with Dyrholm, director May el-Toukhy became one of the most important voices in Danish cinema: in 2026, she won the Golden Lion in Venice for ›Woman Unknown‹. ›Queen of Hearts‹ has already inspired a remake by Catherine Breillat.

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