. But “Un Couple” is not his first scripted film. In 2002 he directed “La Derniere Lettre,” about a Jewish woman in Ukraine awaiting her grim fate at the hands of the advancing Nazis.
Actor Nathalie Boutefeu and director Frederick Wiseman greeted media on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival in September.Wiseman worked on the script “on and off for about eight months” with the film’s only actor, Nathalie Boutefeu. “It was a bit of a Covid project for us,” he said. “And then we shot the film in May of ‘21.”
“It’s a beautiful six and a half hectare garden owned by a friend of mine,” Wiseman said. “and the 'third person' in the film.” He views the life of the garden – from blooms to decay – as a “biological” representation of the couple's life. For him, nature holds space in the film as a tangible representation of the Tolstoys’ relationship from its idyllic beginning, through its decay and unraveling, to the end with Leo’s death in 1910. Nature, he contends, can be very dangerous.
Sophia appears at once unmoored by her husband’s emotional abuse and, tragically, also drawn closer to him. For some, these roles of abuser and abused the Tolstoys inhabit will feel all too modern. The current understanding of accepted relationship norms may tempt the audience to dismiss Sophia’s undying love for the tortured, genius writer she married. She is subjected to gaslighting. She is to be pitied. His place in literary history is tarnished by the interceding century.
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