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Anatomy of a Fall review – electric Palme d’Or-winning courtroom thriller | Thrillers | The Guardian

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A tantalising screenplay keeps the audience guessing in Justine Triet’s gripping French drama in which superb lead actor Sandra Hüller plays a woman suspected of her husband’s murder T o fully understand a marriage you need to be a part of it. And even then it can seem as if the two partners are communicating in entirely different languages. This is literally the case in the marriage of successful German-born author Sandra (a phenomenal Sandra Hüller) and her French husband, aspiring writer Samuel (Samuel Theis), a union that is forensically and microscopically examined in Justine Triet’s gripping, sinuous, Cannes Palme d’Or-winning courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall. Language – Sandra prefers to speak in English even though, at her husband’s behest, they live in France – is just one of the flashpoints for tension between the two. These tensions might have just simmered on privately and indefinitely, within the walls of the couple’s partially renovated alpine chalet, but for the fact th

‘Phenomenal’: Sandra Hüller as Sandra, with Swann Arlaud as her lawyer, in Anatomy of a Fall. Alamy View image in fullscreen ‘Phenomenal’: Sandra Hüller as Sandra, with Swann Arlaud as her lawyer, in Anatomy of a Fall. Alamy Wendy Ide's film of the week Thrillers This article is more than 2 years old Review Anatomy of a Fall review – electric Palme d’Or-winning courtroom thriller This article is more than 2 years old A tantalising screenplay keeps the audience guessing in Justine Triet’s gripping French drama in which superb lead actor Sandra Hüller plays a woman suspected of her husband’s mur

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