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Résumé :
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Like the seagull, finished one year earlier, Uncle Vania represents a turning point in Chekhov's dramatic work, a transition play that marks the evolution from his younger plays (Platonov, Ivanov, etc.) to his mature plays (Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard). This is what gives the play its particular style like a break in time, a pause in which overtones of desire, adolescent passion and rebellion linger, but are foundering, slowly sinking into disenchantment and the bleakness of everyday life. And this is felt in Jean-Baptiste Mathieu's images and filming style as he steps into the world of the play to embrace the rhythm and flow of Julie Brochen's production. Serebryakov, an aged ailing professor, has retired to the family estate in the countryside with his second wife, the beautiful young Yelena Andreyevna. Living on the estate is Voinitsky - Uncle Vania - and his niece Sonya, Serebryakov's daughter from his first marriage who radiates the spirit of his deceased wife
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