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A Couple
Directed by
Frederick Wiseman
2022
63m
Drama
,
History
,
Romance
5.4
85%
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The film follows a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is his wife, Sophia.
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Cast of A Couple
Nathalie Boutefeu
Sophia Tolstaya
A Couple Reviews
The Film Stage
Rory O'Connor
I couldn't bear another minute of A Couple, but I'm perfectly happy it exists.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Albeit a slight film in comparison to Wiseman's lengthier exposes, Un Couple is an impressive showcase for Boutefeu.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
Wiseman, in his dozens of documentaries, is an analyst of social institutions; here, in fiction, he probes the overlapping realms of literary history and private mores and finds them jointly fuelled by patriarchal authority.
Film Inquiry
Lee Jutton
It's an interesting piece of late work from Wiseman, and one hopes it is not the last.
AwardsWatch
Adam Solomons
Wiseman's new film is a strange, artful ode to a woman too often left in the dark.
indieWire
Sophie Monks Kaufman
How it feels to be the prime collateral damage of a life deemed "pathetic" is the objective of Wiseman's portraiture here and, by the end, he has created a devastating and essential rendering of this exact scenario.
Paste Magazine
Andy Crump
Wiseman likely would prefer not to go through life known only as "the documentary guy," and A Couple lets him set aside that label for one blessed hour of immaculate narrative filmmaking.
The Playlist
Marshall Shaffer
While it's great to see an example of a filmmaker refusing to rest on his laurels or stay inside the nearly defined box of his cultural reputation, a film must be a film -- not just a concept.
Hollywood Reporter
Leslie Felperin
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.
In Review Online
Patrick Preziosi
A Couple is an epistolary recitation, as beholden to the adaptations of Straub-Huillet as it is the landscape films of James Benning, though there is a multifaceted emotiveness here too, one which matches itself to a panoply of pastoral imagery.
Culture Mix
Carla Hay
A Couple is really about one-half of a couple. It's a series of monologues where Nathalie Boutefeu portrays widow Sophia Tolstaya griping about how her marriage to Leo Tolstoy was unhappy. Boutefeu's compelling performance saves this very repetitive film.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
If Wiseman has so often turned his camera on the sprawl and imperfections of institutions, this is a portrait of an individual, isolated and pushing back.
Slant Magazine
Keith Watson
A Couple ultimately constitutes not so much a footnote to Frederick Wiseman's storied career as a beguiling little doodle in its margins.
Variety
Guy Lodge
Perhaps the most significant surprise of "A Couple" is the extent to which its still feels, in quiet, diligent spirit, like a Frederick Wiseman film.
RogerEbert.com
Matt Zoller Seitz
The movie is powered by words and more words.
TheWrap
Dave White
Boutefou's performance in this delicate but wild environment is coiled and tense, but one that balances interior pain with a graceful delivery.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
[A] sharp, sobering and invigorating movie...
Spectrum Culture
Alan Zilberman
How would Wiseman, who normally depicts American institution with unmatched patience and deliberation, handle a film with a script? The answer is to create something that is barely a film at all.
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
George Elkind
Achieving a sense of potency few filmmakers could manage if given anything close to the same, Wiseman attends as beautifully here to what his characters have as he does to what they've lost.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Damon Wise
What we're left with, however, is an almost painfully austere production that makes previous depictions of creative women look like The Ziegfeld Follies.
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