Discover the trailer for the Palme d'Or, Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet

"I don't know what it will be next time!" Confided to Figaro Justine Triet at the time of Sibyl, in 2019, when she entered the Cannes competition for the first time. Justine Triet was born as a filmmaker in Cannes. From film to film, she crossed the selections, from the most confidential to the most prestigious. Her first fiction feature, La Bataille de Solférino, with Vincent Macaigne and Laetitia Dosch, was presented at Acid in 2013. Victoria, with Virginie Efira and Vincent Lacoste, opened Critics' Week in 2016 (and 640,000 admissions when it came out). With Anatomy of a Fall, she won the Palme d'Or last May.

Anatomy of a Fall, which she co-wrote with her companion, director Arthur Harari (Black Diamond, Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle) directs Sandra (Sandra Hüller, German actress Toni Erdmann), writer living in an isolated chalet in the mountains with his companion Samuel, their 11-year-old son, Daniel, visually impaired since a road accident, and their dog. Samuel is found dead at the foot of the house, his skull exploding after falling from the balcony. Or from the window. The absence of witnesses sows doubt. Sandra was the only one present at the time. Suicide or homicide? A suspicious death investigation has been opened. A year later, Sandra finds herself in the dock and her son attends the hearing.

Begins a real trial film, brilliantly conducted. With experts and psychiatrists who contradict each other, skirmishes between the defense lawyer (Swann Arlaud) and the general counsel (Antoine Reinartz), twists and turns.

Sandra proclaims her innocence but does not make much effort to make herself sympathetic. "I don't believe in reciprocity in the couple," she said at the helm. It's naive and depressing." Here, the main accused is not so much Sandra as the couple she formed with Samuel. The debates bring to light the dissensions, grudges and grudges. Samuel's jealousy of Sandra, a recognized author when he suffers from an impotence to write, Sandra's loyalty gaps with women, Samuel's depression, guilt following their son's accident... A dissection with a scalpel, raw and cruel.

Triet skilfully mixes the Bergman of Scenes from Married Life and the Preminger of Autopsy of a Murder (or, under its original title, Anatomy of a Murder, with James Stewart as a lawyer). The couple is the great story of Justine Triet's cinema. All his films, in one way or another, from comedy to drama, work on the body of this monstrous entity of a two-person existence. "The man and the woman only get along so badly because they live in the same house", wrote Alexandre Vialatte. Justine Triet, receiving the Palme d'Or, said: "This film is the most intimate I have ever written." Intimate and universal. All couples will find themselves in the dock.