Marguerite's Theorem

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Marguerite's Theorem

2023

1h 52m

Comedy

Drama

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The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her promo, she is finishing a thesis she has to expose to an audience of researchers. On the D-day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse. Marguerite decides to quit everything to start all over again.

Jessica Kiang

Variety

A movie riddled with cliché that plunges right past comprehensible into painfully, pedantically predictable — even to those of us who stumble when subtracting one two-digit number from another.

Jun 15, 2023

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Steph Green

IndieWire

French-Swedish director Anna Novion crafts a film that plots its coordinates in a familiar territory yet ultimately struggles to do what the best movies of this type do, which is manage to make the audience care about whatever their character cares about.

Rated: C+

May 25, 2023

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James Croot

The Post NZ

While showcasing a fabulous performance from Rumpf, director Anna Novion’s tale just feels slightly let down by some predictable plotting, emotionally manipulative musical cues and some rather sketchy secondary characters.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 9, 2024

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Javier Ocaña

El Pais (Spain)

Marguerite's Theorem begins as a classic college story and develops into a portrait of an existential crisis. [Full review in Spanish]

Sep 16, 2024

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Roger Salvans

Fotogramas

An interior journey that Novion captures without frills, in which chaos and mathematical calculations abound. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Sep 13, 2024

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Nuria Vidal

Cinemanía (Spain)

Marguerite's theorem contains many clichés, but the magnetic presence of Ella Rumpf makes everything connect like a theorem, which is no less effective for being well-known. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 12, 2024

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Igor S

It was a weird one to watch. Different from other movies who deal with similar subjects, for sure. It also seemed like 2 different movies in one and at least half or more is not interesting at all. If you watch the cover for this movie, you would think this is a totally different movie than it ended up being. It is still worth watching, but don't expect much. Also, expect to be weirded out by some scenes.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/20/25

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The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her promo, she is finishing a thesis she has to expose to an audience of researchers. On the D-day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse. Marguerite decides to quit everything to start all over again.

Director: Anna Novion
Producer: Miléna Poylo, Gilles Sacuto
Screenwriter: Anna Novion, Mathieu Robin, Marie-Stéphane Imbert, Agnès Feuvre
Distributor: OVID
Production Co: TS Productions, Beauvoir Films
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: French
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 15, 2024
Runtime: 1h 52m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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