A very bad review for a movie many applaud - Peter Bradshow-

Mon Roi review: Breaks a leg, then takes a tumble

 Vincent Cassel is a glorious, wonderful darling cad in Maïwenn’s dramatically valueless story of an injured women recalling a past love and his betrayals

 Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel in Mon Roi.


 PR Mon Roi, directed and co-written by Maïwenn (that is, film-maker and actor Maïwenn Le Besco) is an unendurable confection of complacent and self-admiring nonsense: shallow, narcissistic, histrionic and fake.
This director’s Polisse — about a division of the Juvenile Protection Squad in Paris — was presented in Cannes a few years ago; it was a film widely admired and despite its group-improv spasms of over-acting and a somewhat preening cameo from the director herself, it certainly had qualities.
But Mon Roi defeated me: it is an outrageous 130-minute firework display of drama-queen over-acting and bad acting: impossibly irritating and self-indulgent, featuring people who are clearly on some important level supposed to be irrepressible, adorable and richly life-affirming — but are actually tiresome prats.
When you’ve got a movie featuring that egregious smoulderer Louis Garrel, and he turns out to be the relatively calm, non-annoying one … well, it’s a bad sign  writes Peter Bradshaw  

Emmanuelle Bercot (who directed the decent and heartfelt social-realist drama "Standing Tall" that was this year’s Opening Gala) acts in the film playing Tony, who is supposedly a lawyer — although Maïwenn’s conception of a lawyer’s exact duties seems airily vague. The movie is seen in flashback, as Tony recovers in rehab with a broken leg from a ski-ing accident, and reflects on a passionate, destructive relationship with the father of her child. In a club one night, she sees Georgio, played by Vincent Cassel and they hit it off. Georgio appears to be a very rich restaurateur with a flash apartment and a super-cool circle of friends from the world of fashion. They get married and she gets pregnant, but Tony’s brother (Louis Garrel) is suspicious of him and only afterwards does Tony discover that Georgio has serious commitment issues, drug problems and personal debts, for which she, as legal spouse, is partly liable.