One mistake changes the equation. MARGUERITE’S THEOREM follows a gifted mathematics student at France’s elite École Normale Supérieure whose carefully planned future unravels during a crucial thesis presentation. Shaken by failure, academic pressure and self-doubt, Marguerite walks away from the world she knows and begins searching for a life beyond certainty.

Rialto Recommends MARGUERITE’S THEOREM is a sharp, elegant drama about genius, pressure and the frightening freedom of starting again. Set inside the rarefied world of elite mathematics, it follows a young woman forced to confront not only a failed proof, but the limits of a life built entirely on brilliance. Intelligent, intimate and quietly romantic, it finds feeling in the space between logic and desire.