Did the heroine of
Anatomy of a Fall
kill her husband?
Everyone has their theory but no one has the solution.
Justine Triet, the only person capable of removing doubt, prefers to leave doubt and note that each audience has its own theory.
Speaking to France Inter, the director explained that the French judge Sandra Voyter (played by Sandra Hüller)
“innocent”
while the Americans more readily imagine her
“guilty”
.
The Spanish consider the novelist
“detestable”
.
“The way Sandra is played is very feminist,”
says Triet
.
She is someone who is so uninhibited in the way she does not ask for what she wants but imposes it... This sparked a reaction
.
People felt shocked.”
But is the heroine guilty of her husband's murder?
Did he fall from the top of their chalet?
Or did he commit suicide?
The story, composed by Justine Triet and her companion Arthur Harari, does not say this.
And when we question the director, she limits herself to explaining that she will give her version “
in ten years”
.
Questioned by the American media during her campaign for the Oscars, the director gave the same answer.
The suspense in this investigation and trial film does not alone explain the success of the film.
“It’s really the couple, the man, the woman, the relationship between man and woman”
which
“marked people”
, believes Justine Triet.
“
People totally identified with this couple, and with these difficulties of living together, of being in this form of parity
,” she continues.
The #meetoo context also played a role, according to her.
His film is
“completely soaked in post-MeToo”
.
“
Judith Godrèche, after Adèle Haenel, says essential, necessary things.
It took us longer to get there in France but we are getting there
, she explains.
Incest, rape and everything, unfortunately, concerns the wealthy social classes, the poor, the rich, the middle classes.
So it must be said again: this liberation is necessary everywhere.”
The feature film, Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2023, six Césars in 2024, including best film, two Golden Globes and a Bafta, was in the running in five categories at the Oscars this year and won best screenplay. original.
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“It’s really the couple, the man, the woman, the relationship between man and woman”
which
“marked people”
, confides Justine Triet.
“
People totally identified with this couple, and with these difficulties of living together, of being in this form of parity
,” she continues.
The director, rewarded at the César ceremony where Judith Godrèche spoke to encourage the cinema family to
“face the truth”,
realized that her film, written after the arrival of the MeToo movement, is
“completely soaked in post-MeToo”
.
“
Judith Godrèche, after Adèle Haenel, says essential, necessary things.
It took us longer to get there in France but we are getting there
, she explains.
Incest, rape and everything, unfortunately, concerns the wealthy social classes, the poor, the rich, the middle classes.
So it must be said again: this liberation is necessary everywhere.”