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America's preeminent documentarian Frederick Wiseman breaks form to make 'A Couple,' a filmed soliloquy with actor-writer Nathalie Boutefeu, dramatizing the internal angst of Sophia Tolstoy.
Read Deadline's review of Frederick Wiseman's 'Un Couple,' screening in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
Un Couple is, nevertheless, quite the curio. Made over a few weeks last year as Wiseman and his collaborators were stranded in France, Boutefeu embraces the quirky setup she is given, and delivers a charming, plausibly stoic performance as the seminal Russian author’s oft-spurned spouse.
The state of Leo and Sophia Tolstoy’s marriage is at the heart of Un Couple from perennial documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who presents a drastic change of pace from his well-researched explorations of events or noted institutions.
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 ...
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“A Couple” is Wiseman working to bottle a human soul. His customary forensic treatment is in evidence, even over the course of just 64 minutes, through what he chooses not to show.
