Did you like Anatomy of the Fall? Two movies from director Justin Trietti are coming to Netflix

She became the third woman to be honored by the Cannes Film Festival last May when she won the Palme d’Or for Anatomy of the Fall, which had a strong theatrical run. We are, of course, talking about Justine Triet, who in four feature films has become an essential reference of French cinema.

The platform, which is committed to the policy of promoting auteur cinema with its new catalog entries, this month promotes the cinema of Justin Trietti to its subscribers by offering two films that the director shot with Virgin Efira in front of his camera.

In the first, Victoria, released in 2016, Virgin Efira plays the titular Victoria. He is a criminal lawyer in complete emotional nothingness. He goes to a wedding, where he finds his friend Vincent (Melville Poupaud) and Sam (Vincent Lacoste), a former dealer he bailed out of trouble. The next day, Vincent is accused of attempted murder by his partner. The only witness at the scene was the victim’s dog.

Chosen for Critics’ Week at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Victoria marks a significant shift in Virgin Ephyra’s acting career, showing her talent in the dramatic comedy register before being identified for comedies.

Justin Triet’s second feature film offered on Netflix is ​​Sybil. The director changes the register for a clean drama and finds Virgin Ephyra again playing the lead role.

Sybil is a novelist turned psychoanalyst. Passionate about writing, she decides to leave most of her patients. When looking for inspiration, Margot (Adele Exarchopoulos), a struggling young actress, begs him to take it. In the middle of filming, she is pregnant by the lead actor (Gaspard Ulliel)…who is in a relationship with the film’s director (Sandra Huler, who would later become the heroine of Anatomy of the Fall).

While he explains his passionate dilemma to her, Sybil, fascinated, secretly records him. His patient’s words feed his novel and take him back to the storm of the past. When Margot asks Sybil to join her in Stromboli to finish the shoot, things accelerate at a dizzying pace…

Sybil opens the doors to Justin Triet in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Here he signs a very cinephile film, especially reminiscent of Robert Altman’s The Player or Vincent Minnelli’s Fifteen Days elsewhere.

But when it comes to his inspiration, Justine Treet insists that he was inspired by the series in Analysis, as well as Woody Allen’s The Other Woman, a film that haunted him from the beginning of writing:Strangely enough, I don’t like this film, but its narrative principle fascinates me: a woman in search of peace and inspiration finds herself with another woman who throws her into an absurd vertigo and blows her whole life.“The filmmaker also went to meet with psychoanalysts who had destabilizing experiences with the patient.

Victoria and Sybil, currently on Netflix.