In Eugéne Green’s “La Sapienza”, a zippy camera guides us through architectural views and details before introducing us to Alexandre Schmidt (Fabrizio Rongione), a respected French architect who's being awarded for a lifetime work. Lyrical music floats around and Alexander’s speech, which referenced the human progress and praised the environmental consciousness, despite routine, pleased his wife, Aliénor (Christelle Prot), a dispirited psychoanalyst who still suffers in silence with the early death of their only child. The insomniac Alexander also lives embittered, haunted by the ghost of a former colleague and kind of a rival, who ended up shooting himself in the head. This story has a parallel with the rivalry between the renowned architects
