Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une Chute)

National Premiere of the film awarded with the Palme d’ Or at this year’s Cannes Festival, in collaboration with Spentzos Film​.

Director: Justine Triet
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Samuel Theis, Swann Arlaud 
Runtime: 151'
Year of Production: 2023
Language: English/French
Subtitles: Greek

The gray areas in the lives of a couple and a marriage are brought to the surface in the most indiscreet way when the husband of a successful writer is found dead outside his home, the victim of a fall that may or may not have been self-inflicted. Immediately his German-born wife, and mother of their child, is considered a prime suspect. And it is left to the court to decide her innocence or not, whether her husband committed suicide or someone (maybe her?) pushed him to his death and whether the cold and unapologetic character of the author finally fits perfectly the profile of a cold-blooded killer. 

With a terrifically precise script that contains the mystery of a psychological thriller and holds several twists and turns of a classic courtroom drama, “Anatomy of a Fall” captures the viewer's attention from the very first minutes and continually renews it with a series of ideas that Triet and her co-writer, Arthur Harari, draw from their understanding of truth as a dangerously fluid concept. And of course the film's success and incisive effectiveness would not have been possible without the wonderful lead performance of Sandra Hüller ("Toni Erdmann"), who understands her layered heroine so deeply that she portrays her as both victim and perpetrator, a puzzle open to conjecture and even more vulnerable to interpretation. Loukas Katsikas