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Queen of Hearts

6.9/10

Rating

127 min

Runtime

2019

Release Year

May el-Toukhy

Director

Cast

Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann, Silja Esmår Dannemann

Quick Synopsis

Anne is a skilled advocacy lawyer who focuses on helping vulnerable children and young adults. She lives with her husband Peter, a doctor, and their twin daughters, and they seem to have an ideal family life. However, when Gustav, Peter's teenage son from a previous relationship who has been distant from the family, comes to live with them, Anne develops a growing attraction to him. This inappropriate desire leads her into risky behavior that, when revealed, triggers a series of consequences that threaten to unravel her family and career.

Detailed Synopsis of Queen of Hearts

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

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