A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.
Direction
Rivette's controlled chaos—real rehearsals bleed into fiction.
Acting
Ogier and Kalfon weaponize their actual off-screen relationship.
Writing
Racine's tragedy becomes a grenade in modern marriage.

Director
Jacques Rivette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rivette shot the rehearsal scenes with a documentary crew present; actors never knew when 'rehearsal' became 'film.'
The 252-minute runtime was Rivette's revenge against producers who butchered his previous film—he made something un-cuttable.
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