Review: Frederick Wiseman's gorgeous 'A Couple' brings the words of Sophia Tolstoy to life
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Nov 22, 2022
3 minutes
The title of "A Couple," Frederick Wiseman's new movie, is both intriguing and a little misleading. Intriguing because it doesn't make reference to a place, establishment or social issue, as you might expect by now from this 92-year-old master of the institution-centric documentary. And misleading because in the course of this rare dramatic work — Wiseman's third after "Seraphita's Diary" (1982) and "The Last Letter" (2002), though stricter fiction/nonfiction semanticists might beg to differ — we meet only one-half of the couple in question.
She is the writer Sophia Tolstoy, famed for her long,
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