An island. A woman on her bike. Helen disappears from her home to begin his day as a cleaner in a hotel. Upon entering a room, she overhears a couple playing chess. Fascinated by the power and intimacy that emerge from this scene, she'll get excited for this game obsessively, endangering everything that was his life.
A nice surprise that the first movie that shows surprising pitch Sandrine Bonnaire, daily maid dull see his life transformed when she discovered a passion for chess. This frame serves as a trigger to several exciting themes, while provoking a surprising fervor taking over the sports movie (it is surprising to feel emotions at the Rocky during the latter part of the film in the tournament) during the progression and gradually gained the confidence of heroin.
The film questions the discrepancy that can cause intellectual awakening, the birth of a passion with a more mundane surroundings. Sandrine Bonnaire and really carried away by something for the first time in his life finds it hard to join this craze with his family and his job more ordinary. The other characters, very well written (including an excellent Renaud Francis in the role of husband) also expressed their incomprehension at her, and this opposition gives the film a very successful social dimension. Without knowing it, by discovering a passion she has real talent, Helen rises well above the fray at his expense, and is finally "different" and "offset" against his associates every day. Thus the strategic and military failures (most used when approaching this game the movies) is completely erased in favor of the more social and feminist, including the emphasis on the figure of the Queen (the most powerful piece of gaming). 
Sandrine Bonnaire delivers a stunning performance, her face lights up at the start so detached as and as the film progresses and she asserts in her art. She who has the habit of seeing in very dramatic roles (though there are exceptions of course like the beautiful Miss of Lioret that made it a romantic heroine) is radiant in this more positive note. Caroline Bottaro drives the point by multiplying the playful visual tricks to show the invasion of failures in his mind. Among the best ideas, our heroine launched in the imaginary parts with crumbs on a checkered tablecloth during dinner at a restaurant, or on a checkered floor tiles for a tile that same household taking a uniform color when she starts to doubt . 
As in any movie "sport", a mentor is needed, here brilliantly portrayed by Kevin Kline Dr. gruff and lonely. Once again, Caroline Bottaro discusses their relationship with accuracy, avoiding the expected love story (without neglecting the mutual attraction experienced watermark) and the easy pathos through Kline's disease. The staging of chess is very successful. They aroused the interest of insiders and others (who will find hard to get started after the film), alternating maneuvers on the plates with the reactions of players, strained or amused. It is so taken by the party as much by the content of the game itself than the content of suspense and drama of the situation (going t make it?). 
The party which concludes the film pushes the parallel with the pattern of sports movie using all the tricks possible to strengthen the narrative tension. The performance of Helen is an internal dialogue and voice-overs, the use of flashbacks and a nice idea of telepathy between Kevin Kline and Sandrine Bonnaire. An amazing surprise is the casting with the discreet presence of Jennifer Beals in a trigger and it is difficult not to draw a parallel with his role as worship Flashdance where she also went out of his condition by his gift for dance. Maybe it is totally unintentional coincidence but it offers additional depth to the key feminist film. One of the beautiful French Recent successes Caroline Bottaro which has still not responded. Hopefully soon! Released on DVD from Studio Canal
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