Karim Aïnouz gives flesh to Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII, in a tense film in the form of a psychological thriller. “Once upon a time there was a sick and angry king who reigned over a corrupt kingdom’, the first sentences of the film are spoken by a future queen of England, Elizabeth I.
The Queen's Game is interested in the “living” Catherine ParR, who assisted her husband until his death in 1547.