Marguerite's Theorem

Marguerite's Theorem (2023)

Le Théorème de Marguerite

The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.

Date of release
2023-11-01
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (236)
Runtime
1h 54m
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Director
Anna Novion

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: €2.9M
  • Filmed in: Île-de-France and Haute-Savoie
  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Award for best music at the La Baule Festival

Marguerite's Theorem is 2023 French-Swiss drama film co-written and directed by Anna Novion. It is about a female mathematics student at ENS whose career is upended when an error is discovered in her work. It premiered on 22 May 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It was distributed in France on 1 November 2023.

Production

To show mathematics realistically on the screen, Anna Novion worked with French mathematician Ariane Mézard, who provided all the equations written by the characters in the film, so that they are all authentic. Moreover, Mézard even made real progress on Goldbach's conjecture, the goal of Marguerite's work, for the film.

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