After signing three promising first features, including the excellent one SybilFrench director Justine Triet hits a big note with her new film. Anatomy of a falla masterful legal drama that meticulously analyzes some writers’ descent into hell.
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the recent Cannes Film Festival, Anatomy of a Fall takes us to a lost chalet in the middle of the Alps where Sandra (Sandra Hülser), a German author, and her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) live. also a writer, and her visually impaired son Daniel (Milo Machado Graner).
One day, not long after an argument with Sandra, Samuel is found dead in the snow, having mysteriously fallen from the top floor of the chalet. Sandra and Daniel barely have time to process the shock before the police and media are already looking for a perpetrator.
The theory of an accident is quickly discarded, leaving the hypothesis of suicide or even murder. Suspected of causing her husband’s death, Sandra must prove her innocence in court, in a trial that will reveal the smallest details of her married life.
Masterful
With “Anatomy of a Fall,” filmmaker Justine Triet brilliantly takes up the codes of the legal thriller to analyze the balance of power within a couple on the verge of explosion. Faced with an Attorney General convinced of her guilt, Sandra (the excellent Sandra Hülser) must agree to reveal all of her relationship secrets in detail.
Lack of communication, guilt, jealousy, infidelity, tantrums: all these problems that have plagued Sandra’s couple for years will come to the surface during the trial in front of her son Daniel (impressive Milo Machado Graner), who even begins to doubt his mother . Justine Triet directs everything masterfully and manages to keep us on the edge of our seats and moving through every minute of this gripping drama that spans two and a half hours.
Undoubtedly, Anatomy of a Fall is a great film.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5. Anatomy of a Fall, a film by Justine Triet with Sandra Hülser, Milo Machado Graner and Swann Arlaud. On the screen.