Palme d’Ors don’t grow on trees, so it’s small wonder that the world has fallen for Justine Triet’sAnatomy of a Fall, and the outstanding lead performance of Sandra Hüller, since it won the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize.
Hüller’s turn dominates the ‘sort of’ courtroom drama of the film, in which her German novelist — also called Sandra — is accused of pushing her French husband Samuel (Samuel Theis), also a writer, from the top floor of their alpine home.
Sandra maintains he fell, or jumped, and the film spends much of its runtime chewing over the truth, though never revealing it.
Triet and Hüller first met over a decade ago, when Hüller presented the director with a prize for her short film Vilaine fille, mauvais garçon (2012).
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