Featuring a solo performance by Nathalie Boutefeu as Sophia Tolstaya, the wife of Leo Tolstoy, the film consists of her monologues, which Wiseman and Boutefeu adapted from Tolstaya's letters and diaries.

[2] After working on a French-language production of The Belle of Amherst, Wiseman and Boutefeu developed the script based on Tolstaya's writings.

[2] A Couple premiered in competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September 2022.

[2] It screened at the New York Film Festival in October 2022,[3] and received a theatrical release at Film Forum in New York City in November 2022.

[4] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 13 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".