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This is an Open Captions screening.
A woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness. (R, 150 min.)
3:30 PM
7:15 PM
*Winner of the Palme d'Or, Cannes 2023
For the past year, Sandra, 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 Sandra becomes the main suspect.
What follows is not just an investigation into the circumstances of Samuel's death but an unsettling psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel's conflicted relationship. [NEON]
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner
Director: Justine Triet
Languages: French, English, German
Genre(s): Crime, Drama, Thriller
"Invigoratingly cerebral."
— Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"A twisty, thought-provoking drama."
— Lee Marshall, Screen Daily
"A director and actress in peak form."
— Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter
"The film works largely because Hüller, a German actress probably best known for her role in Toni Erdmann, gives an extraordinary performance."
— David Sims, The Atlantic
"This whole film has a wizardry to it which you’ll be thinking about for days, to the internal beat of those steel drums, boinging over and over."
— Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph (UK)
"Triet masterfully turns our attention from potential crime-solving to the inner workings of two imperfect people and one complicated marriage. It’s absolutely riveting."
— Candice Frederick, Huffington Post
"Full of gradually unpeeled complexities, Anatomy of a Fall is a family drama that wears the clothes of a crime procedural – a whodunit where marriage itself feels like a prime suspect."
— Philip De Semlyen, Time Out
"Both in front and behind the camera, Anatomy of a Fall is a film made by two women in particular who are simply at the top of their game, and neither Hüller nor Triet show any signs of slowing down."
— Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, AWFJ.org
"Both understands our private relations as enigmas to those on the outside, as well as wields that mystery for a subtle, striking examination of the imaginative means by which we fill in personal and collective blanks."
— Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
"As it calls the institution of marriage to the stand, Triet’s piercing film holds the ambient tensions and illogical loose ends of domestic life against the harsh and rational light of a legal system that searches for order in chaos."
— Ben Croll, IndieWire
"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."
— Elena Lazic, The Playlist
"Anatomy of a Fall is, above all, about the essential unknowability of a person, of a relationship, and the perilous impossibility of trying to understand — whether it’s a child puzzling over his parents or a courtroom straining to make sense of an inscrutable suspect. In other words, it’s a film concerned with storytelling — the stories we tell others about ourselves and those we, as individuals and a society, tell ourselves about others."
— Jon Frosch, The Hollywood Reporter
