Anatomy of a Fall revolves around the guilt of Sandra, a novelist suspected of having pushed her husband Samuel from a balcony. Some moviegoers imagine that Sandra did not push Samuel from the balcony, but simply pushed him over the edge.

Others believe rather that the husband threw himself away, perhaps to rediscover an importance that he felt he had lost. Psychoanalysts, speak out. Justine Triet's speech at the Golden Globes supports the suicide theory. The French most often see her as innocent and the Americans as guilty.