Anatomy of a Fal | Movie Evaluation

In a distant mountain chalet within the French Alps, Sandra (Sandra Huller), a profitable novelist, is being interviewed by a pupil. Upstairs her husband Samuel (Samuel Thjeis) is enjoying his music so loud that she has to name off the taped interview. Shortly afterward, Samuel is discovered lifeless within the snow under the open window of his workplace. Did he by chance fall? Did he commit suicide? Or was he pushed?

Sandra instantly comes beneath suspicion for homicide. Claiming she is harmless, she contacts an previous lawyer buddy, Vincent (Swann Arlaud), to defend her in court docket. Throughout these proceedings, Samuel and Sandra’s visually impaired son Daniel (Milo Machado Graner) is named to testify about whether or not he heard his mother and father preventing earlier than the autumn. Samuel had a head wound, and a blood splatter on the shed under the window appears to determine he was pushed. However Sandra remembers that months earlier she had suspected he tried suicide with an aspirin overdose.

A turning level within the trial – and within the film’s focus — comes with the introduction of an audio tape of a struggle between Samuel and Sandra the evening earlier than his dying. It consists of sounds of violence. It additionally reveals some deep conflicts between the couple. She has been sad within the relationship and had an affair with a lady. He accuses her of plagiarism and resents that she is extra profitable. He additionally asserts that she controls his life.

The courtroom proceedings maintain us guessing to the top, one of many few occasions we are able to keep in mind when the guilt or innocence of the accused was not firmly established. However the actual revelations of the story should do with what we study Sandra and Samuel’s marriage. The “fall” had already occurred way back. Its questions in regards to the influence of profession competitors, sexual orientation, infidelity, resentment, and lack of shallowness are the actual mysteries right here.