Watch out, a phenomenon is coming to your living room! Canal+ is indeed airing Anatomy of Autumn tonight, the French film the world is buzzing about. The big winner of the Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival, the big winner of the last César ceremony with 6 statues, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay, Justin Triet’s brilliant legal drama has only an Oscar. Conquered!
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Released in cinemas last year, Anatomy of a Fall, which French and American audiences do not have the same perception of, tells the story of Sandra, Samuel and their visually impaired 11-year-old son Daniel, who live for a year. Far from everything, in the mountains. One day, Samuel was found dead at the foot of their house, and an investigation into the suspicious death began. Sandra will soon be charged despite the suspicion: suicide or murder? A year later, Daniel attends his mother’s trial, the couple’s actual autopsy.
with Anatomy of a Fall, Justin Triet He wanted to make a film focused on the defeat of the couple. Result ? A reinvention of the trial film, a fascinating portrayal of a couple, a dense and virtuosic legal drama, all with impressive skill. Without forgetting the brilliance of the interpretation, with a special mention of the German actress Sandra Hüller and the young Milo Machado Graner.
“I wanted to go back to more realism, almost in a documentary sense, whether written or formal.”says Justin Triet. “But it was to go further in terms of the complexity of what the film tells us, as well as the emotions it can convey. Everything was aimed at a greater simplicity: there is no additional music, the film is more raw, more bare than my previous one. .”
Want to (re)discover what is simply one of the best movies of recent years? You know what’s left to do…
Tonight on Canal+ at 21:10.
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Source: Allocine
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