A Couple (2022)

Original title

Un Couple

Directed by

Frederick Wiseman

Genre

drama film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 03m

Rated

TP

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman who is Sophia Tolstaya gives a one-person performance drawn from her own letters and diaries. She speaks about her marriage to the famous writer Leo Tolstoy. The film only features her words and her presence.

intimatemeditativemelancholiccerebralstagnantreflectiverestrainedatmospheric

What happens

A Couple (French: Un couple) is a 2022 French-language drama film directed by Frederick Wiseman. Featuring a solo performance by Nathalie Boutefeu as Sophia Tolstaya, the wife of Leo Tolstoy, the film consists of her monologues, which Wiseman and Boutefeu adapted from Tolstaya's letters and diaries. It is Wiseman's first narrative film since The Last Letter  (2002), and his first ever that is shot on location rather than being a filmed play. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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