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King of Hearts

Le roi de coeur

1966

Philippe de Broca

Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Jean-Claude Brialy, Julien Guiomar ...

6.7

181

Comedy During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts." Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead them out of town, but they are afraid to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] depends on muddleheadedness in order to make much sense, but if you're feeling muddleheaded, you might find yourself charmed and enchanted by the conceit."	NEU
United States	Mark Chalon Smith Los Angeles Times	"This fable gets more fanciful, more precious, with age (...) De Broca creates a comic style that can be described as elegant slapstick."	POS
United Kingdom	Paul Taylor Time Out	"The fairy-tale atmosphere and carnival energy are nicely placed, but the whole excessively whimsical thing would have worked so much better if de Broca had toughened up the overall (wartime) context"	NEU

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