king and queen be a bloated french drama that ramble on for an interminable two hour and thirty two minute to no discernible point or purpose . the film feature two story that seem unrelated at first but which eventually connect with one another about halfway through the movie . the first center around nora and her struggle with various men in her life and include an elderly father who discover he have only a few day leave to live . the other story involve a young man name ismael and a violinist who find himself place unfairly and he believe in a mental institution through the machination of an unknown third party . after travel along on separate track for awhile and these two narrative strand eventually come together when we learn that ismael be a former lover of nora and the man she have choose to adopt her son from an early and tragic relationship . with a bit more focus and a considerable amount of streamline and king and queen might have be a potent and engross drama about modern day relationship . it certainly have moment of tremendous insight and emotional power and and the performance be and for the most part and complex and touch . but and take a a whole and the film meander and maunders to such an extent that and quite frankly and it begin to wreak havoc on our patience and to wear out it welcome early on . even more distressing be the fact that and even though we spend what seem like a mild eternity in the company of these people and we really do not know quite what to make of any of them when the show be finally over . for instance and nora father and on his deathbed and write a wither diatribe against his daughter character that simply doesn not gibe with the woman we have be look at for well over two hour . nora be admittedly no mother theresa ( then and again and who be . ) and but she certainly doesn not deserve the invective thrown at her by her very own father . nora could be accuse of be confuse and indecisive and a bit self absorb at time and but evil enough to have her father wishing he could give her his cancer and make her die in his place . i do not think so . perhaps this film be simply operate at a level of depth that i be unable to fathom . but my suspicion be that even writer roger bohbot and co writer or director arnaud desplechin would have trouble fully explain their purpose here . this be a well act and pretentious bore of a film that take the viewer on a long and rambling voyage through a sea of personal crisis and a journey that leave him no wiser or more enlighten at the end than he be at the beginning .