Anatomie d’une chute (world premiere, Cannes Film Fest, in competition)
Starring a sensational Sandra Hüller as a German novelist on trial for the murder of her husband, French director Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is grippingly rich in text and subtext.
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Part a legal procedural (a variation of the courtroom genre), part a portrait of a complex career woman(who’s in the same profession as her husband’s), part a snapshot of a troubled marriage on the rocks, part coming-of-age narrative of a blind boy (single son), torn between his ever-shifting loyalties and possibility of trust (implicit and explicit) of his father and mother.
Philosophically, Anatomy of a Fall is about the essential impossibility of really knowing a person, or of a relationship.
It is also about the perilous impossibility of trying to understand — whether it’s a child puzzling over his parents or a courtroom straining to make sense of a suspect that remains inscrutable and mysterious through the end.
