ANATOMIA DE UMA QUEDA (ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE, França, 2023) - ANATOMY OF A FALL is roughly structured like a courtroom thriller, with evidence collecting and interrogation that eventually leads to a lengthy trial; the title and some of the advertising even hark back to Otto Preminger’s 1959 classic, Anatomy of a Murder. But Triet lets us know early on that this won’t be an ordinary procedural. She stretches unlikely moments while brushing over the kinds of turns that in more conventional hands would become key passages, thus weaving the idea of uncertainty into the very fabric of her film. The nominal question hovering over the story is whether Sandra actually killed Samuel or whether a depressed Samuel threw himself out of the window. The underlying (and more important) question, however, is whether we can ever know or fully understand the truth. Prime.
