Here’s the trailer for Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall.” It deservedly won the Palme d’Or last month at Cannes. Sandra Huller should have probably won the Best Actress prize as well, but the jury wanted to spread the wealth.
As you can see in the trailer, the film is both in English and French. The footage shown quite honestly doesn’t do the film Justice, “Anatomy of a Fall” is a staggering 150 minute achievement, a Hitchcockian puzzle.
In my 05.21.23 review of the film, I called it an “automatic Palme d’Or contender.” Sandra Hüller plays Sandra, a German-born, France-based novelist who gets accused of killing her husband. Coincidences and clues start to pile up, but there’s still an uncertainty that invades this film.
At its best, this is a film about the unknowable, the frustrating aspects of life’s unanswered questions. Triet tackles the intimate stories that we tell, the truths, and falsehoods, that slip through the cracks. The ambiguity here is damn-near perverse.
It’s now been 13 years since "The Grandmaster,” and it doesn’t sound like Wong Kar-wai will be making another film in the near future. His future seems to be on the small screen.