Today’s New York Post featured an article about the Tribeca Film Festival and on the list of five of the year’s most hotly anticipated features is “Queen to Play,” a film about a French woman who becomes obsessed with chess. tribecafilm.com/filmguide/Queen_to_Play.html
The Post also had a review (2 stars) of Woody Allen’s new movie “Whatever Works” which opened the Tribeca Film Festival and describes the main character as "Daivd, a misanthropic, hypochondriac and misogynistic physicist named Boris. After a failed suicide attempt, Boris leaves his wife, quits his job and moves to Chinatown, where he teaches chess and abuses his young students . . . " (Other reviews describe the character as a “cranky chess instructor” so it sounds like verbal abuse rather than anything more alarming).
The Woody Allen movie opens on June 19th. I don’t know whether Queen to Play has a distributor but it sounds interesting.