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In Theaters Now
- 2023
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- 2 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- Neon
- 2 h 31 m
Summary For the past year, Sandra (Sandra Hüller), her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel's suspicious death is presumed murder, and S...
Directed By: Justine Triet
Written By: Arthur Harari, Justine Triet
In Theaters Now
- 2023
- R
- Neon
- 2 h 31 m
- 2023
- R
- Neon
- 2 h 31 m
Anatomy of a Fall
8.1
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Summary For the past year, Sandra (Sandra Hüller), her husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel have lived a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow below their chalet, the police question whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Samuel's suspicious death is presumed murder, and S...
Directed By: Justine Triet
Written By: Arthur Harari, Justine Triet
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
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97% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
3% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
87
97% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
3% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
If it sometimes feels a bit contrived, and if its conclusion will leave some viewers unsatisfied, Triet has made a film that succeeds brilliantly — on terms that are as exacting, rigorous and precise as her unflappable heroine.
Triet’s breathtakingly intelligent and subtly perverse masterpiece takes the long way through the cold and the snow to address, in nuanced but never ambiguous terms, the ineffable and irreducible mystery at the heart of deep relationships — between two partners, between parents and their children, between words and the world.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 User Ratings
8.1
89% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
6% Mixed
1 Rating
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6% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 18 User Ratings
8.1
89% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
6% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
6% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Masterpiece.
Many layers that need to be peeled back.
I had no clue which way this movie was going to wind up, but I loved the ending.
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Best movie I've seen in a LONG time.Stellar performances.
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Though some may come for the murder mystery, it’s Triet’s way of using that genre to get at deeper notions of love turning to hate, and tiny marital fissures that turn into chasms, that really makes this something close to an anti-romantic masterpiece.
Once the case comes to trial, Anatomy of a Fall becomes an engrossing courtroom drama, but not for the reason you think. The French court is a vessel for grandstanding and verbal sparring matches; it’s far less stodgy than the American ones we see in even the most absurd courtroom movies.
Anatomy of a Fall may not reinvent the wheel, but it’s still one of the most sharply made courtroom dramas in recent memory.
Part thorny family story, part whodunit, part courtroom drama and part meditation on the nature of truth and fiction, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall takes two hours of conversations and makes them both provocative and propulsive.
As the cinematic equivalent of an airport read, Anatomy of a Fall is adequate—not brisk but twisty, not stylish but unobtrusively informational. But the artistic failings are obvious and distracting throughout.
Há tempos um filme não me causava o mesmo sentimento que o ótimo "Doubt", de 2008. Sandra Hüller exibe em nuances o turbilhão que sua personagem vive dentro de si, em uma atuação contida, apesar da dualidade que ressoa nisso.
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This movie is truly engaging. The lead actress is amazing as are all the other performances. As engrossing as it is, it's not with faults, and several of them. First and foremost, like most french films, this one is too long. Some of the courtroom scenes are too long and superfluous. Lastly and more importantly ==== SPOILER ALER ===== there was never any doubt whatsoever what the verdict would be and that's a problem. Without having that tension, the film became longer than necessary and ultimately didn't lead to any big surprise endings. Perhaps those sorts of endings are too "American?" Anyway, it's worth watching, if she's eligible for an oscar nod, I hope she gets it.
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”Anatomy of a Fall” is a great narrative of witnessing a fall of family’s relationship with effective satire, heavy-feeling drama and pure entertainment!! A great dialogue-driven drama film, with all amazingly great actors, confidently precis directing, a bit overstreched but looks great in overall.
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A plain, real-life courtroom movie. Wondering the final judgment keeps you on the screen, but utter realism makes the movie, a bit boring. You can listen to the movie like a YouTube video while working. You don't need to look at the screen at all.
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Any number of terrific psychological outcomes could’ve bloomed from this fertile seed. But Triet is after something more opaque than a satisfying mystery or an examination of a lethal marriage, or even a cautionary tale about the damage done to a child as the result of bad parenting. In fact, Triet is so determined to leave us guessing about practically every step of the story that frustration sets in almost immediately. It’s one thing to obfuscate. Albert Serra’s moody thriller, “Pacifiction,” takes confusion to astronomic levels yet still manages to be among the best of the year.Even with myriad scenes of head-scratching uncertainty, Serra’s overall vision is so assured we’re able to assimilate its themes through inference alone. We may not understand the facts, but we still get the meaning.With Triet, on the other hand, it becomes apparent, once the various revelations begin to drop, that there’s not really a story here. Or if there is one, Triet doesn’t seem particularly interested in telling it. The main problem is with the character of Sandra. Hüller doesn’t play her like an innocent person falsely accused of murder, or a guilty person hoping to get away with it. She plays Sandra like an amnesiac who doesn’t seem to know if she’s killed her husband or not. And though she claims her innocence, she’s not particularly convincing. Nor does she seem to want to be. And it’s this puzzling ambiguity that makes the whole “did she or didn’t she” plot line ultimately lose steam. Mysteries without an answer are not new. Antonioni’s “L'Avventura” rendered the question **** disappearance moot by transforming it into a discourse on existential ennui. And Triet almost pulls off a similar bait and switch, inserting a flashback scene of spousal discontent into the middle of her fuddled courtroom drama that brings the story briefly to **** the scene, Sandra’s husband Samuel (Samuel Theis), a frustrated author, expresses his discontent about being overshadowed by his wife’s literary success, and she responds with a litany of understandable grievances, mostly centered on their son Daniel and the accident that caused his near **** back and forth between husband and wife is heartbreakingly honest and emotionally lacerating. And I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps this was the film Triet ought to have made. Not some hokey whodunnit where none of the specifics even matter, but a raw, modern story about a combative marriage coming apart at the seams and the effects it has on a developing child. It’s also here that Hüller comes out of her bizarre malaise, stops hemming and hawing in an unconvincing attempt at naturalism, and finally delivers the kind of blistering performance we’ve been crying out for. The omnipresent soup of incoherent subtext is blessedly dropped and we hear Sandra speak her mind with a blinding clarity that slaps the audience **** it doesn’t last. Soon enough we’re back to the flimsy trial scenes which meander on in a structureless mope before coming to an underwhelming end, with a verdict I couldn’t have cared less about.There is, however, a curious third act development involving Sandra’s son Daniel (played beautifully by Milo Machado-Graner), that, though creepy in the extreme, didn’t appear to cause a moment of concern to anyone in the film. Without elaborating too much, I’ll just say that under the guise of playing amateur detective, Daniel engages in some deeply sketchy behavior with the family dog that made me question whether “Anatomy of a Fall” might actually be a story about the making of a serial killer. Whether this is Triet’s intention, or whether Daniel’s actions are just typical pet owner conduct in France is anybody’s guess. That’s the trouble with undisciplined ambiguity. It’s hard to tell if the finished product is there by chance or by calculation. For all I know the baffling plot holes and unsatisfactory threads left hanging by Triet could be just what she intended. Whatever the case, her attempt to tell a story by not telling a story has resulted in a lack of answers that has not magically produced an answer, only two and a half hours of waiting in **** THEATERS
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Production Company
Les Films Pelléas,
Les Films de Pierre,
France 2 Cinéma,
Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma,
Canal+,
Ciné+,
France Télévisions,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,
Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine,
Département de la Charente-Maritime,
Cofinova 18,
Cinémage 17,
Indéfilms 11,
Cinécap 5,
Cinéventure 7,
Cinéventure 8
Release Date Oct 13, 2023
Duration 2 h 31 m
Rating R
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
BendFilm Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Brussels International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
