I
thank my producers who allowed me to make this film with great freedom.
The freedom not to seek to correspond to any formal narrative standard of moral genre, to always experience deeply.
That's the only thing that interests me.
We tried to touch on something true while always valuing imperfection, ambiguity and complexity.
And this freedom is the most precious thing for me, because it is the only way to make films that are prototypes,
”
explained Justine Triet, Friday, at the Césars, while she received the sixth and final trophy, that of best film, making her the second director to win it.
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Since her legal thriller
Anatomy of a Fall
received the Palme d'Or last May, this portrait of a successful novelist, accused of having thrown her husband out of the attic of their Alpine chalet, has experienced a stratospheric trajectory.
The film, which received Golden Globes and a Bafta, continues to fill theaters in France and the United States months after its release and is in the running on March 10 in five categories at the Oscars.
A triumph that Canal+ analyzes this Monday.
The encrypted channel is broadcasting the Hitchcockian story on linear TV for the first time, to be discovered or rewatched as the devil hides in the details and the sphinx-like attitudes of Sandra Hüller.
Before presenting a documentary on the “Triet method”, which film buffs cannot miss.
“Apparent chaos”
In
Anatomy of a Fall: The Rise of Justine Triet,
Édith Chapin summoned the director's favorite actresses, Virginie Efira (star of her previous films
Sibyl
and
Victoria
) and Sandra Hüller, her technicians, her editor Laurent Sénéchal, her casting director, its producers.
And above all, Justine Triet herself.
“All describe a collaborative set where apparent chaos reigns
,” emphasizes Édith Chaplin.
Justine Triet sows disorder.
She knows where she is going, but she will look in others for the answers that she ultimately has within herself.
As her sound engineer says, she is constantly researching: when writing, on set.
This allows her to explore multitudes of contemporary themes: rivalry within couples, the status of women in society, the role of mother in the face of disability, the place of the author, the quest for truth and justice
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It's hard to believe it now, but the first shots are discouraging.
Sandra Hüller delivers the best of herself during rehearsals before becoming exhausted.
You have to learn how to film it as soon as you install it.
Filmed in two months,
Anatomy of a Fall
will require almost a year of editing!
A feat and an obligation as each decision is crucial.
Including the many deleted scenes.
A first version of the film reaches 3:30 hours. The one released in theaters will be an hour shorter.
Also read: Is the heroine of Anatomy of a Fall guilty?
Justine Triet responds (in her own way) in “Beau Geste”
Édith Chapin was able to use two of her deleted scenes in her investigation.
One will delight fans of
“the sexiest lawyer in the Alps”
, played by Swann Arlaud.
We see the ace of the bar and his client lying on the hood of a car looking at the stars while sipping a beer.
The heroine gets up suddenly and steals a kiss from her defender before bursting out laughing and admitting to being a little lost.
In the end, Justine Triet will just prefer to allude to a past attraction but will keep a strictly platonic relationship on screen.
And Édith Chapin notes: “
Each shot shapes our perception of Sandra’s character.
If this moment had been preserved, we would undoubtedly not have had the same judgment on her.
This scene, like so many others, highlights the precision of the choices and sacrifices of Justine Triet who multiplies
the great gestures of cinema
in Anatomy of a Fall
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