Helene is a middle-aged housekeeper at a posh Corsican hotel with few prospects. She is a devoted and diligent wife and mother but she has nothing to call her own in her life except her family. She watches a couple staying at the hotel playing chess on the deck and she is very interested. She buys an electronic chessboard to give her husband for his birthday. She tries to teach herself and tries to teach him but her husband doesn't like the game. She cleans for an eccentric, reclusive American and she asks him to mentor her in the game.This is good, finding something she is very passionate about separates Helene from her family and they begin to resent the intrusion. The townspeople begin to gossip about the time she spends with the American and this doesn't help her family feel better about her choices. 4* (I really liked this movie)
97 min, Drama directed by Caroline Bottaro with Sandrine Bonnaire, Francis Renaud, Jennifer Beals, Valerie Lagrange, Alexandra Gentil, Alice Pol, Elisabeth Vitali, Dominic Gould, Daniel Martin, Kevin Kline.
Note: Blockbuster 4*, imdb 6.6 out of 10, not listed on Rotten Tomatoes.
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