Un Couple

A film about a long-term relationship between a man and a woman. The man is Leo Tolstoy. The woman is Sophia. They were married for 36 years. Each kept a diary. Although they lived together, in the same house, they wrote letters frequently to each other.  Leo Tolstoy insisted that they read their diaries aloud to guests at dinner parties. They were also a dysfunctional couple, enjoying passionate moments of reconciliation. The film is Sophia’s monologue about the joys and struggles of their life together, loosely drawn from their letters to each other and their diary entries.