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Queen of Hearts (Danish: Dronningen, The Queen) is a 2019 Danish drama film directed by May el-Toukhy, and starring Trine Dyrholm and Gustav Lindh. The Danish and English film titles obliquely refer to the Queen of Hearts character in the children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which is mentioned repeatedly in the film. The film was selected as the Danish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.[1] The film won the 2019 Nordic Council Film Prize.[2]
Anne is a lawyer shown working on three cases of rape and violent abuse of young women. She is married to a physician, Peter, and they have two young twin daughters, Frida and Fanny. Peter's teenage son from his past marriage is Gustav, who lives in Sweden with his mother Rebecca. The family plans for Gustav to move in with Anne and Peter. Gustav arrives and Anne cannot refrain from flirting with him. Gustav begins to conflict with Peter, pushing for the right to move out on his own despite being a minor. One day, Anne returns home to find there has been a burglary. The incident is reported to the police, but afterwards Anne finds an item in Gustav's laundry that was in her bag, stolen during the break-in. She realizes that he was responsible for the robbery and confronts Gustav with the evidence. However, Anne promises to keep the matter a secret if Gustav does his part in the household. From then on Gustav cheerfully joins in the social life of the family, for instance reading the Danish version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland aloud for the young twin girls, which Anne herself also does. (The film title alludes obliquely to the Queen character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.) Time passes and one night, Gustav brings his girlfriend Amanda home. Anne hears the couple having sex and is aroused.
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 97% based on 30 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Led by an exceptional performance from Trine Dyrholm, Queen of Hearts is a bold and uncompromising look at the darkness that can lie within family, directed with formidable skill by May El-Toukhy."[4] Especially Dyrholm's performance was praised.[5] Guy Lodge of Variety magazine called it "[A] sleek, engrossing melodrama..."[6]
The film won nine Robert Awards, including Best Danish Film.[7] It also won four Bodil Awards, including Best Danish Film.[8] At the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, the film won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category.[9]
A French remake was directed by Catherine Breillat, from a screenplay written by Breillat in collaboration with Pascal Bonitzer.[10] Starring Léa Drucker and Samuel Kircher, the film will premiere in competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.[11][12][13]
When filmmaker Cameron Cloutier asked me to check out the early version of his film, Queen of Hearts: A Twin Peaks Fan Film, I was immediately interested. Doing re-watches of the Twin Peaks series along with Fire Walk With Me is something I do at least once every few years. Of course Mark Frost's books, The Secret History of Twin Peaks: A Novel and Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier have provided additional content to enjoy, but getting a chance to revisit the Twin Peaks aesthetic while experiencing the characters of Annie Blackburn and Caroline Powell (with several other familiar faces by their sides) in their own original stories was a very unique and exciting journey. Overall I think Queen of Hearts is a clever story with beautiful imagery and a ton of heart from its creator, cast, and crew.
Most Twin Peaks fans have their favorites, who they love, who intrigues them, who they want to be. Personally I never really connected to Annie Blackburn as a character before, as a younger viewer I spent most of my time rotating my interest between Laura Palmer's power and Lucy's outfits. After this journey and in taking in the overall theme of the film (no spoilers!), there is definitely a connection, now. This was a fun, inspiring film, and I'm glad to know Annie's out there, much bigger now than any of us ever knew. Here's to the next adventure!
Anyone who is interested in hearing and seeing first hand the experience of a woman breaking the artistic glass ceiling will find the film compelling, not least because her story comes directly from the source.
The film has been a massive success with critics and audience. It won the Audience Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, and won three awards at the Göteborg Film Festival, including the Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film. It premiered dometically in Denmark in March and most recently in Sweden. It has been picked up for theatrical distribution in the UK, Ireland, Benelux, South Korea and Mexico.
Since 1999, Swedish composer / sound designer Jon Ekstrand has worked and contributed as a composer or a sound designer on several films, television films, TV series and short films, including music for 4 episodes of the Swedish TV series Sebastian Bergman and the 2017 sports drama Borg vs McEnroe, starring Shia LeBeouf and Stellan Skarsgård. As a composer, he has collaborated with film director Daniel Espinosa on several occasions, including Easy Money (Snabba cash, 2010), Child 44 (2015) and most recently on Life (2017), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds.
The gardeners advise Alice to prostrate herself on the ground to avoid being confronted by the Queen of Hearts, but she ignores this advice and looks the Queen in the eye. When the Queen arrives and asks Alice who is lying on the ground (the backs of all playing cards look alike), Alice tells her that she does not know. The Queen becomes frustrated and commands that Alice's head be severed, but the King reminds her that Alice is only a child, and Alice's head is spared. The queen of hearts is like the Raven in the book "Fatty Legs."
In Dallas Bower's Alice in Wonderland film, the Queen of Hearts appears as a stop-motion puppet created by Lou Bunin, voiced by Pamela Brown who also portrays Queen Victoria in the real world framing device. The puppet is quite clearly a grotesque caricature of Queen Victoria, so much so that the film was banned in Great Britain until 1985 because of how unflattering the depiction of her was.
The Queen of Hearts appears as the main antagonist of the film, who is a pompous tyrant with a smaller crown. She is really very snide and mean. She wants everything her way and has quite a short temper. There are things shown in the 2010 film that hint to the fact that she is an amalgam of the Red Queen, and the Queen of Hearts herself.
In Tim Burton's 2010 Alice in Wonderland movie, the character of the Queen of Hearts is primarily identified as the Red Queen and is also an amalgam of the Red Queen and the Queen of Hearts. The Red Queen is the queen of cards while the White Queen is the queen of the chess pieces.
The Queen of Hearts is the main antagonist of Disney's 13th full-length animated feature film Alice in Wonderland, which is loosely based on the 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice found there by the late Lewis Carroll, and one of the supporting antagonists in Mickey's House of Villains. She is the tyrannical, oppressive, wrathful and deranged ruler of Wonderland, the wife of the King of Hearts, and Alice's arch-nemesis.
She was voiced by the late Verna Felton in the original film in her second villainous Disney role who also voiced the Elephant Matriarch in Dumbo and would go on to voice Aunt Sarah in Lady and the Tramp. The Queen was later voiced by Tress MacNeille, who has also voiced other villains such as Carol Miller (also known as Mom) in Futurama, the Perfectionist in the Courage the Cowardly Dog series, and Agnes Skinner in The Simpsons, and currently by April Winchell, who also played Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Ma Duskerton in Gravity Falls, Clarabelle Cow in Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, Black Heron in the Reboot of DuckTales and Hypnotheria in Teamo Supremeo.
Though she clearly overpowers her husband, the King of Hearts, he appears to be the only resident in Wonderland to have any affect on her actions and opinions, to the point where he can cease (or at least, delay) a beheading, as seen a few times throughout the film. With these facts, it can be concluded that the King is the only resident for whom the Queen is confirmed to geniunely care about, interestingly.
As the ruler of Wonderland, the queen has absolute authority over everyone in it. If she were to order someone executed, the order will be carried out regardless of how small the offense was. But it seems that the king has some power next to her, as he was able to convince her to host a "fair" trial for Alice pending her fate.
In the film, the Queen appeared (as Alice puts it) to be a "fat, pompous, bad-tempered old tyrant". Her presence is all of the more striking because of how tiny her husband (whose life she still dominates just like she does in the book) is made to look in comparison to her.
The Queen appeared as a recurring guest in House of Mouse and one of the villains who aid Jafar in taking over in Mickey's House of Villains. In the film, when Jafar is defeated, she flees out of the House with the rest of the villains.
Queen of Hearts is the main antagonist of Disney's 1951 animated feature film, Alice in Wonderland. She is the tyrannical and deranged ruler of Wonderland, and serves as one of the primary members of the Disney Villains franchise.
The deck of cards first appears in episode eight of season 1, when Travis (Kevin Alves) can be seen playing with them. "There's no queens in that deck," Natalie (Sophie Thatcher) tells him, in a throwaway line that feels like anything but. The moment has inspired fans to speculate that the four queens have a symbolic meaning that foreshadows the rest of the girls' time in the wilderness. Whether they refer to four different girls taking up the mantle of Antler Queen, four who are sacrificed to feed the others, or even four who become predatory hunters like the ones we saw in the pilot's cold open, the offhand statement certainly seemed significant.
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