Marguerite's Theorem

Marguerite's Theorem (Le Théorème de Marguerite, 2023) is a French drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Anna Novion.

Marguerite (Ella Rumpf) is the only woman in her year at the École Normale Supérieure and has spent years developing a theorem she is finally ready to defend in front of a room of researchers. One mistake surfaces during the presentation. That is enough. Her entire academic foundation gives way.

Anna Novion then follows Marguerite as she walks away from mathematics and tries to work out how to live like everyone else — find housing, a job, something like closeness with other people. Tasks that look far simpler than proofs turn out to be anything but. A quiet, precise character study anchored by Rumpf's careful, internal performance. Stream Marguerite's Theorem (2023) on iFILM.