Frederick Wiseman: A Couple

Can you say "Deep Cut Upkeep A Couple" ten times fast?? Legendary, prolific American documentarian Frederick Wiseman has returned with one of only 3 fiction films  in his 55 year career. A Couple finds Nathalie Boutefeu performing monologues from the letters of Sophia Tolstoy in the beautiful Brittany coast. 

The DC Three admit defeat to the literary gods for not having read a Tolstoy novel, but instead reflect on the nuanced simplicity of Wiseman’s stylistic techniques, along with the multi-layered performance Wiseman and his star / co-writer balance. 

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A Couple Crew

DIRECTOR Frederick Wiseman

WRITERS Nathalie Boutefeu, Frederick Wiseman

EDITOR Frederick Wiseman

CINEMATOGRAPHY John Davey

COMPOSER Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

SOUND Jean-Paul Mugel

A Couple Cast

Nathalie Boutefeu as Sophia Tolstoy