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It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

a character who reminds Leopardi. Denis Lavant is the perfect option for the strange master Max. Catherine Deneuve. Pierre Richard in sketch of role. and James Wilby in a kind of game for British stereotypes. a film high to be memorable but useful for rediscover the flavor of a period. a script without patience and more suggestion than real good lines. too unrealistic, only collection of drawing about the characters, it is saved by a form of beauty who could be precious for a state of soul. but nothing else. so, an easy film, confused in few scenes, dramatic and aesthetically. interesting for actors and for a story who has not the best teller. but it is not a great sin. because it remains a nice meeting with a lost world and not bad portrait of romantic genius.

Max, 12 years old, a child and suicidal vagabond meets Ambrose, disillusioned pastor. The boy needed soon as a genius of chess. They go all out to conquer the world champion title. Fourteen years later, Max has become a dandy powder, strange and taciturn. Always accompanied by Ambroise, faithful coach, manager and protector. Max is confronted with the most elegant and most condescending Champions moments, Lord Staunton, during a meeting organized by the Machiavellian Marquise de Theux. This passion for chess and amorous intrigues give her daughter, the lovely Anne-Lise, the winner of this tournament. In a world of thriller, where the game does not stop at the scene, the protagonists are risking their lives and their mothers while behind a cliff, the sun goes down on a giant chessboard.

This movie represents the life itself. The characters are brilliant. Denis Lavant (Maitre Max) lives a caricatural chess life. Comparison with real life -- with your life -- is straightforward and will be made easier if you know the chess game.

Not being a chess player, when reading the comments I was not sure. Pierre Richard used to be one of my favorite actors in comedies. This is not a comedy, and Richard is not convincing as a preacher. But, let me reassure you, this movie is never boring, it's not about chess, it's about how far can you go in life in general. "This is a game that kills me" is often repeated and in this film it is true, although not literally, but there is much at stake. A mother (Catherine Deneuve) organizes a tournament in which money, a title and her daughter is the price. The daughter, Hilde Heynen, is perfectly casted and plays her role as in a Forster-movie. Without telling you the entire plot, through schemes, she plays check-mate against her mother. Nice locations, nice script with good switches, poor acting by Denis Lavant or poor direction(?). But Hilde Heynen is a revelation. She's the cunning part of this story and plays it all the way through. 8 points.