A Couple (2022).Few titles on my way to the Lido had me as intrigued as A Couple. Pre-premiere headlines had billed it 92-year-old Frederick Wiseman’s first foray into fiction. It isn’t. Ten years back, in The Last Letter (2002), the documentary maven followed Comédie Française’s icon Catherine Samie as she recited a missive from a chapter in Vasily Grossman’s novel Life and Fate (1980), an account of life in a Ukrainian ghetto fallen to the Nazis as told by a Jewish mother to her son. A Couple also pivots on another letter, this one read by Sophia Tolstoy to her husband, Leo. Wiseman, now with over forty documentaries to his name, has long cemented himself as the doyen of American cinéma vérité. His works—fly-on-the-wall excursions into American institutions and the people who orbit around them—have an almost reverential appreciation for faces, on which his camera focuses as they spill out words,...
- 9/5/2022
- MUBI
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