Director Justine Triet asks audiences to consider the thin line between fiction and reality.
Now, it’s making its way stateside to ensnare audiences in its taut and twisty web.
Just as Daniel must decide what he believes, so, too, must we.
Sandra Hüller and Swann Arlaud in ‘Anatomy of a Fall’.Credit: Neon
Because Triet refuses to do it for us.
Her camera offers a similar ambiguity that tracks the emotional gauntlet of her characters with a detached eye.
It places the audience in the courtroom, but it never encourages us to take a side.
Samuel Theis, Sandra Hüller, and Milo Machado Graner in ‘Anatomy of a Fall’.Neon
Huller is the film’s anchor, a star of the festival season this year withAnatomyandThe Zone of Interest.
The added complication of his blindness elevates both his performance and the stakes of the drama.
Reality, ultimately, is only that which we perceive in our own lives.
Milo Machado Graner in ‘Anatomy of a Fall’.Neon
Samuel feels he is saddled with too many homebound responsibilities, forced to sacrifice for Sandra’s writing career.
Additionally, Sandra is unapologetically sexual, seeking satisfaction outside her marriage when necessary.
).Grade: B+
Anatomy of a Fallopens in select theaters on Oct. 17.
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