A member of the Comédie-Française, Denis Podalydès puts on this comedy by Marivaux, which analyses romantic desire with spirit.

The true story of Judith Scott, a deaf person with Down’s syndrome, and of Joyce, her twin sister. As children, they were separated to allow Joyce, the “normal” sister, to develop properly.

During an uninhibited work session, looking like a real making of a show, three actors play their own roles as amateur researchers and present, in a series of offbeat conferences, the resu…