On May 21, 2023, Anatomy of a fall began to make history with its premiere in Cannes where days later it won the Palme d’Or for the best film of the Festival. This was the first step in an outstanding awards season, which culminated with the Oscar for best original screenplay, in an edition in which she was also nominated in the categories of best film, direction and protagonist and editing.
Justine Triet y Arthur Hararia creative and life couple, collected that historic Oscar together after the French Film Academy chose to ignore this film that has won 105 awards and 180 nominations since its time at Cannes, and decided to send as its candidate for the awards To simmerwhich no one remembers anymore.
what is it about
In a secluded mountain chalet near Grenoble in the French Alps, Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis) plays music in his attic so loudly that his wife, the novelist Sandra Voyter, is forced to reschedule the appointment with the student who interviews her. Hours later, her son, Daniel (Milo Machado-Graner), returns from a long walk with his dog and finds his father dead under his attic window.
The Oscar nominee Sandra Hueller (The area of interest) plays the protagonist, a German writer who lives with her husband, a failed French novelist, whose calm and peaceful life falls apart when she goes in the blink of an eye from a widow to the sole suspect in her husband’s death.
A mix between drama judicial and psychological thriller for a tense, uncomfortable and aseptic public trial with clear gender bias, which brings to light the intimacy of the couple and whose main witness is Daniel, their son, partially blind due to an accident that occurred years ago.
The ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ trial
The film that signs Justine Triet with superb direction is a stimulating exercise that, among other things, demonstrates the impossibility of drawing objective conclusions from extracts of interactions of which one is not a part, because they lack the historical context of the relationship between those involved. And context is everything.
A imposing and fascinating work of those that last in the memory and that has in the Sandra Hueller one of the great performances of recent years.
[Crítica: ‘La gran exclusiva’, el escándalo del príncipe Andrés es la temporada de ‘The Crown’ que nos negaron]
Where you can see
Anatomy of a fall is available streaming in Spain from Friday, April 5 in the catalogs of Movistar Plus+ and Filmin.
