A trailer has arrived for Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s follow-up to “Mustang.” “Kings” sees the Turkish writer-director tackling the 1992 Los Angeles riots through the perspective of Millie (Halle Berry), a single mom who’s taken in more than a handful of foster kids in South Central.
Overwhelmed with eight kids under her roof and a ninth about to join them, Millie also has to contend with a temperamental neighbor who finds her bustling household a nuisance. “If you can’t get [your kids] to shut up we are going to have an all-out brawl,” Obie (Daniel Craig) threatens.
The pair become unlikely allies when Millie faces a crisis: The riots break out, and she doesn’t know where her kids are. “I gotta find my boys,” she pleads. The two try to navigate the increasingly chaotic city to bring her children home safely.
“Kings” made its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival and marks Ergüven’s English-language debut. Her first feature, “Mustang,” a critically acclaimed story about repressed sisters living in rural Turkey, received an Oscar nod in the foreign-language category. She’s set to team up with Anne Hathaway for her next film, “The Lifeboat,” a period crime drama about a shipwreck survivor on trial for murder.
You can catch “Kings” in theaters April 27.
