With: Nathalie Boutefeu
Leo and Sophia Tolstoy were married for 36 years, had 13 children. Each kept a diary. A COUPLE is Sophia’s monologue about the joys and struggles of their life together, loosely drawn from her diary and their letters to each other.
Festivals & Awards
79th Venice IFF – Official Competition
Press
Elegant and empathetic
VARIETY
Decades of disillusionment come to the fore in dense poetic language, and Wiseman holds them amidst naturalistic footage of the garden, like foie gras on a bed of lettuce.
INDIEWIRE
A valuable and insightful pen-portrait.
THE GUARDIAN
Visually splendid […] and undeniably powerful.
CINEUROPA
