The meteoric Bercot brings to mind, variously, Isabelle Huppert, Michelle Williams, and Toni Collette. And Cassel has the greatest head in cinema next to that of Javier Bardem. But not even they can make this miserable marriage work.

| Sep 29, 2016

Love is blind, but the audience isn't, and why these future contestants on The Jerry Springer Show stay together is anyone's guess, particularly Mawenn's.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 9, 2016

The central couple's ups and downs may grow tiresome, but the characters, powerfully realized by Emmanuelle Bercot and an especially riveting Vincent Cassel, never do.

| Aug 25, 2016

"My King" brims with intimate details, adding to a sense of authenticity that is rarely found in films.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2016

For some reason Mawenn has decided to frame all this with a baldly metaphorical sequence in which the attorney, newly single again, wipes out in a skiing accident and mulls over the past as she learns to walk again at a posh rehabilitation center.

| Aug 18, 2016

As a director, Mawenn is at her best with ensembles, using actors as instruments and harmonizing tones.

| Aug 16, 2016

Bercot and Cassel deliver phenomenal performances in this erotic bonfire of a movie. Mawenn doesn't want to warm our heart, she wants to rip into it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2016

A very wise movie with brilliant performances and no answers, one that presents the impossible stability of love like scientific fact.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2016

From blowup to makeup to uneasy dtente, "My King" is repetitive yet oddly tremendous.

| Aug 11, 2016

A rocky marriage of believable performances and groan-inducing pop psychology.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 11, 2016

[Director Maiwen], her co-screenwriter Etienne Comar and the exceptional cast led by Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel have an acute enough eye for the manners and mores of these archetypes to make the material feel consistently fresh and alive.

| Aug 11, 2016

Depleting and clamorous ...

| Aug 10, 2016

Mon Roi is one of those endlessly talky, theatrical French films about love and family life and having things to eat and drink that no other country ever makes so well.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2016

This very uneven drama is an honorable, nervy attempt to get inside the head of a woman who really, really doesn't need her headache of a husband -- except, of course, she desperately does.

| Aug 9, 2016

Mawenn fashions a bracing film about co-dependency, capturing the erotic contours of subservience and flattery.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2016

The histrionic emotion register of the performances in this French drama undermines a candid and sometimes perceptive portrait of an abusive relationship.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 29, 2016

Mon Roi certainly has its moments - at times it is extremely funny, at others surprisingly affecting - but its ideas about the minutiae of adult relationships are grounded more in pop psychology than proper semiotic insight.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2016

If watching beautiful people fall apart beautifully floats your boat, then Mon Roi will do very well, thank you.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2016

A great, seething pot of delicious emotional noodles.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2016

Mawenn is unafraid of grand gestures and big emotional moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 24, 2016