Tribeca - Queen to Play
French slice of life film, floating somewhere in the nebulous space between comedy and drama. Thankfully, unlike a lot of other French films in this genre, it is not mind-numbingly boring. But it isn’t particularly interesting. A middle-aged woman who works as a cleaning lady decides she wants to learn how to play chess as a way of feeling like the glamorous people staying in the hotel she works at. So she gets one of her clients (a grumpy recluse played by Kevin Kline) to teach her how to play. And then stuff happens. There is actually a story arc and a plot, which is always an iffy proposition when watching French movies. Gets a three out of five.