On which platforms can you see ‘Anatomy of a Fall’, the Oscar-winning judicial thriller

A German writer lives with her family in the French Alps. But when they find the body of her husband in her chalet, she will become her main suspect. Suicide or murder?

Since it premiered at the last Cannes Festival, Justine Triet’s film has not stopped achieving success until it has become one of the essential films of this season. He won the Palme d’Or and, from that moment on, his career expanded to unsuspected limits.

It was the true winner of the French Academy’s Cesar Awards and won the Golden Globe and the Oscar for best screenplay, written by Justine Triet herself and her partner, director Arthur Harari.

And the perfection that the narrative of this film achieves is one of the keys to its success, due to its ability to talk about a lot of topics through the structure of a judicial thriller whose schemes are dynamited throughout a plot in which doubt, the unknown, above all, is revealed through a most precise mechanism.

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“Anatomy of a Fall”, nominated for the 2024 Oscars, presents a plot full of ambiguities and an outstanding cast.

Now, this film arrives on the Filmin platform, which has become an event also in its passage through exhibition halls, becoming the most viewed Palme d’Or in recent times (more than 35,000 spectators) and which has been distributed by Filmin itself along with Elástica (which has also brought other auteur film successes this year such as The Zone of Interest or Past Lives).

Anatomy of a Fall is the fourth film by Justine Triet, a director who cut her teeth in documentaries and who, in her transition to fiction, has always maintained that observational perspective when delving into her stories.

His new film, in that sense, is based on some unusual elements, such as using a domestic drama to turn it into a thriller that escapes all possible expectations. At its heart is the constant questioning of women within the patriarchal environment, in which concepts such as ‘the bad wife’, ‘the bad mother’ and, in this case, the murderer, exist.

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The director of “Anatomy of a Fall”, Justine Triet, poses with Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival. EFE/EPA/GUILLAUME HORCAJUELO

A man dies after falling from the second floor of a luxury chalet lost in the Alps. His son will be the first to find him, and then his wife (Sandra Hüller), a successful writer who had just finished an interview.

All suspicions will fall on her. It could have been a suicide, but public opinion prefers to think that it was a murder. And there the media trial will begin, at the same time that we enter the intimate space of the protagonist and her relationship with her husband (dead) and with her son.

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Through these elements, a kind of dissection is configured around the collapse of the image of the perfect family through the dissatisfactions within the couple, at the same time that the helplessness of the minor within this mechanism is revealed. perverse.

A very clever twist on what constituted Anatomy of a Murder, Otto Premiger’s 1959 classic in which James Stewart represented a lawyer defending a soldier accused of murdering his wife’s alleged rapist and in which he also beat the ambiguity and the search for that always elusive truth, as well as a moral reflection on justice.