Love and math gloriously mix in Marguerite’s Theorem, an original rom-com nominated for the 2024 César for Best First Feature. Marguerite (Ella Rumpf, winner of the 2024 César for Best New Talent), a brilliant doctoral student in mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), and the only girl in her class, is finishing her doctoral project. Marguerite’s life is entirely dedicated to her work. She lives on campus and the only people she interacts with are her faculty advisor, Professor Werner (the always brilliant Jean-Pierre Darroussin, All Your Faces – 2023 Fall Virtual Screenings), and her mother, by phone (Clotilde Courau).

One day, as she presents an intermediate project report in front of an audience of peers, another student (Julien Frison) points out an error that completely invalidates her proof and reduces years of work to nothing. Unable to face the humiliation, Marguerite suddenly abandons her dissertation, scholarship, and sheltered academic environment to start anew. Her mathematic mind is ill suited for the real world, but it can also prove very useful when it comes to paying the rent. With the help of new friends, Marguerite learns to open up to life, gains a fresh perspective on her research, and realizes that love and mathematics can coexist!

Marguerite's Theorem is Anna Novion’s feature debut.