A Couple

Name: A Couple
Genre: Drama
Released: November 11, 2022
Duration: 63 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Nathalie Boutefeu

2022

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Zipporah Films | Release Date: November 11, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Nathalie Boutefeu

Summary: A Couple follows a long term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 63 min

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IndieWire Sophie Monks Kaufman

Sep 4, 2022

Wiseman has made a vocation out of filming what is right in front of him, and he applies that schematic to a dead woman whose words are all that remain. Her husband did not see her, but we will. Read full review

Andrew Crump

Nov 10, 2022

Though A Couple is [Wiseman's] first narrative feature in 20 years, the narrative structure documents history by fashioning Sophia’s diaries and letters as a performance. Read full review

Dave White

Nov 11, 2022

Boutefou’s performance in this delicate but wild environment is coiled and tense, but one that balances interior pain with a graceful delivery. She embodies rage, bitter amusement, longing and an emotional knowledge that comes only from decades spent with one very difficult person. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Sep 4, 2022

It is a thoroughly intelligent production, a film festival event that could not exist in the rough-and-tumble of regular movie distribution but will I hope find a home on streaming services. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

Sep 4, 2022

The result is an expressive and moving portrait of a tempestuous marriage, one told with elan that feels rich in feeling even if its entire budget probably wouldn’t have covered the cost of croissants on an average film shoot in France. Read full review

Keith Watson

Sep 28, 2022

A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Frederick Wiseman’s storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Sep 4, 2022

Performance aside, the key issue is that endless griping about a shitty marriage – even the marriage of arguably the pre-eminent figure of 19th century literature – is a drag. Read full review

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