Richard Brody reviews the film “Anatomy of a Fall,” a new French courtroom drama by Justine Triet.
The German actress Sandra Hüller stars as Sandra Voyter, a German writer whose husband, Samuel Maleski , falls to his death from the third-floor balcony of their isolated chalet. Sandra is accused of killing him, and her effort to clear her name at trial is complicated by the fact that the main witness to the couple’s life is their eleven-year-old son, Daniel , who is blind.
Triet displays no sense of time, no sense of development, no sense of context, no sense of detail: Sandra’s hiring of Vincent, poof; for how much? And Maître Boudaoud? She just shows up. What about the selection of the jury? Not a hint. The courtroom drama isn’t a major French genre, but, as it happens, it provided the basis for one of the best of all recent French movies, “Saint Omer,” directed by Alice Diop, which was released in 2022.
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