Marie Gicquel, edited by Loane Nader / Photo credit: LOIC VENANCE / AFP 10:16 am, August 23, 2023

The film that won the famous Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival three months ago, is finally released in cinemas, and it lives up to its success. "Anatomy of a Fall", by Justine Triet retraces the trial of a German author, accused of the murder of her husband who mysteriously fell from their chalet in the Alps.

Three months ago, "Anatomy of a Fall" won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and this Wednesday, Justine Triet's film is finally released in cinemas. The plot traces the trial of a German author, played by Sandra Hüller, accused of the murder of her husband in their chalet at the top of the Alps. And from the dock, the main character, Sandra fights in a very stammering French to prove her innocence.

The mother of the family is tired to repeat it, she did not kill or push her husband as also maintained by her lawyer, played by the very convincing Swann Arlaud. Between her wobbly relationship and her family life bruised by a tragedy a few years earlier, the whole life of this novelist who sometimes mixes fiction and reality, is then dissected in front of a hostile court. The latter is also composed of his son, a complex character too, and us, the skeptical spectators.

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"Looking at how people live together"

Sandra Hüller excels in this role of a dark and cornered woman, confused and touching. Justine Triet, the award-winning director, has also carved this role according to the German actress. "I really wrote with her in mind, I thought about her voice, her way of being, etc.," she explains. "The idea, in any case, was really to get into the brain of a woman who has lived a love story and we do not know, obviously, if she killed her husband or not, but also to be able to look at how people live together."

This thriller gives great importance to the atmosphere of the place, the cottage from which the husband fell. This building lost in the middle of the mountains allows a closed door, where marital disputes explode quickly, suffocated by the snow outside. Through scenes of household screaming truth, Justine Triet offers us the anatomy of a wedding and a few lengths.