Justine Triet’s winning film is a penetrating, intelligent and juicily entertaining courtroom murder mystery
” in 2021. Though both “The Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall” showcase the talents of the same German actor, Sandra Hüller, she is so impressive in “Anatomy of a Fall” that she is bound to be nominated for further awards in the coming months, including an Oscar.
Ms Hüller plays a German novelist who lives in an Alpine chalet near Grenoble with her French husband, a frustrated writer played by Samuel Theis. It is no coincidence that their characters are named Sandra and Samuel: one of the movie’s themes is the blurring of real life and fiction. One morning after Sandra has been interviewed by an admiring young journalist, the couple’s blind son Daniel goes out for a walk with their dog .
When they return, Daniel finds that his father has plummeted from the chalet’s attic window. Was it an accident? Did someone push him—or did he jump? Sandra insists to her lawyer, Vincent , that Samuel would not have killed himself. Yet during the ingeniously constructed court case that follows , it becomes clear that neither murder nor suicide is out of the question.
Twists and revelations keep coming, and the characters’ histories keep deepening.
A third film which “Anatomy of a Fall” resembles is “Force Majeure”, a similarly thorough cinematic dissection of an unhealthy marriage. This was the breakthrough hit from, a Swedish writer-director who went onto be the president of Cannes’ competition jury this year. Perhaps the connection between his creation and the winner enabled him to overlook its contrivances and plot holes. But most viewers should be able to overlook those flaws, too.
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