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It's hard to separate the note of intent from the film's synopsis. Because its very structure - these two stories facing each other - is its intent.
I love genre films, and the idea of seeing Nora dive into her memories made me feel that KINGS & QUEEN was a kind of mysterious fairy tale.
When we were writing Nora - a woman surrounded by darkness and loneliness - I was thinking of Hitchcock’s frigid Marnie, the admirable Sharon Stone in CASINO or Gena Rowlands in ANOTHER WOMAN. Three women terrified at the idea of discovering their true selves.
As for Ismaël, he was a burlesque movie in his own right.
Roger Bohbot my co-writer and I had a single guideline: be brutal. Out with melancholy or discrete humour! Be brutally tragic, and brutally comic!
I hope we will shake you up a little.
- Arnaud Desplechin
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