Dir: Justine Triet
Cast: Sandra Huller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth, Saadia Bentaieb, Camille Rutherford, Anne Rotger, Sophie Fillieres
Sandra Huller delivers the best performance of the year in Justine Triet’s intriguing and chilly courtroom psychodrama.
Without doubt, one of my most anticipated films of the year was Justine Triet‘s Palme d’Or winning murder mystery, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’. Ever since the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, where it picked up the coveted award, it has been one of the most talked about and acclaimed films of the year. In an age of cinema dominated by superhero movies and action blockbusters, there has been a huge decline in the number of courtroom dramas hitting the big screen. Throughout cinematic history we have had the likes of – Judgement at Nuremberg, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Verdict and a whole bunch of John Grisham adaptations in the 1990’s – serving as fantastic insights into various legal systems, each with their own levels of dramatic effect…