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Overall Rank: 958
Average Rating: 3.2/4
# of Ratings: 11
Theatrical Release Date: 10/13/2023
Language: French
Genre: Crime, Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Justine Triet
Actors: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth
Plot: When an author's husband turns up dead and the investigation prove inconclusive between an accident and murder, she calls upon an old friend - the only lawyer she knows - to help prepare for the impending trial. -- Chris Kavan
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3/4
Chris Kavan - wrote on 03/19/2024
A fantastic performance from Sandra Hüller anchors this character-driven drama that jumps from courtroom to family and back again. Shame, inadequacy, guilt, jealousy, justice - so many different themes to explore and deftly accomplished.
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4/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 10/26/2023
A juicy, riveting legal drama that works on so many levels. Sandra Hüller is just phenomenal as the under suspicion writer with character flaws that don't automatically count her out as guilty, as is Milo Machado Graner as the boy whose opinion of his mother is the only one that truly matters in the end.
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Anatomy of a Fall - Review
Matthew Brady - wrote on 11/10/2023
Anatomy of a Fall is a clever and compelling drama about a woman who must prove her innocence after the unexpected death of her husband.
It's not quite a mystery/why whodunnit, or a full-blown courtroom drama. And it's not a foreign movie either, as it slips in and out of English and French. It’s a movie about the complications of a situation and the language barrier to get information across, both literal, as our main character has some trouble speaking French, as she is originally from Germany, and metaphorical with trying to communicate what we are feeling and saying to people who don’t seem to listen.
We slowly learn what type of relationship it was between her and her husband during the trial, as she shares personal information to prove her innocence or a secretly recorded …
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