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Queen of Hearts
MEANRANK
74/100
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97. Critics average 97, everyone else 70.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A successful lawyer and mother of twin girls lives a picture-perfect life with her husband. Their stable existence is disrupted when her troubled teenage stepson from her husband's previous marriage comes to live with them. Initially attempting to be a supportive figure, she enters into a dangerous and illicit affair with the young man. The relationship unleashes a torrent of passion and manipulation that threatens to destroy her family, her career, and her sanity, exploring the consequences of desire and the dark secrets that lie within a seemingly perfect facade.
Details
- Director
- May el-Toukhy
- Writers
- Maren Louise Käehne, May el-Toukhy
- Studio
- DR, SVT, Nordisk Film Denmark
- Released
- 27 March 2019
- Country
- Denmark, Sweden
- Language
- Danish
- Runtime
- 127 min
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Awards
- 13 wins, 3 nominations
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Awards & nominations
See all 16 →1 major award won · 13 wins from 16 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award – Best Foreign Feature Film 2019 | Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award – Best Foreign Feature Film | Winner | |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards 2020 | International Submission to the Academy Awards | Denmark | Nominee |
| Bodil Award 2020 | Best Danish Film | Winner | |
| Bodil Award 2020 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Trine Dyrholm | Winner |
| Bodil Award 2020 | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Gustav Lindh | Winner |
| Bodil Award 2020 | Best Cinematographer | Jasper Spanning | Winner |
| Robert Award 2020 | Best Danish Film | Winner | |
| Robert Award 2020 | Best Actress in a Leading Role | Trine Dyrholm | Winner |
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16 awards — Queen of Hearts
×| Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award – Best Foreign Feature Film | Winner |
| International Submission to the Academy Awards | Denmark | Nominee |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Magnus Krepper | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Trine Dyrholm | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Jasper Spanning | Winner |
| Best Danish Film | Winner | |
| Best Score | Jon Ekstrand | Winner |
| Best Sound Design | Winner |
| Best Actor in a Supporting Role | Gustav Lindh | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Trine Dyrholm | Winner |
| Best Cinematographer | Jasper Spanning | Winner |
| Best Danish Film | Winner |
| Dragon Award Best Nordic Film | Winner |
| Nordic Council Film Prize | Winner |
| Best Actress | Trine Dyrholm | Nominee |
| IFFR audience award | Nominee |