Now playing at L’Alliance New York, *Wedding in Blood* arrives as a free, live performance built around the tense social rituals that gather around a marriage and the violence that can surface beneath them. Featured performers Stéphane Audran and Michel Piccoli bring a distinctly French screen legacy into a New York context that often treats European repertory as living history. In NYC, L’Alliance has long served as a conduit for this kind of cross-Atlantic programming, even when specific premiere details are not foregrounded. One clear effect is how the piece uses restraint to make its unease legible.