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Anatomy of a Fall Trivia | 35 facts about the film

“Anatomy of a Fall” is French courtroom drama and the recent Palme D’ Or winner in the Cannes Film Festival.

So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.

Anatomy of a Fall is a 2023 French courtroom drama thriller
The film is directed by Justine Triet
From a screenplay co-written by Triet and Arthur Harari
It stars Sandra Hüller
She plays s writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death
Anatomy of a Fall had its world premiere at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2023
There it won the Palme d’Or and the Palm Dog Award
The film also competed for the Queer Palm
It was released theatrically in France by Le Pacte on 23 August 2023
The film received acclaim from critics
Critics praised Triet and Hüller
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds 96% rating
Based on 95 critics’ reviews are positive
With an average rating of 8.4/10
The website’s consensus reads: “A smart, solidly crafted procedural that’s anchored in family drama, Anatomy of a Fall finds star Sandra Hüller and director/co-writer Justine Triet operating at peak power”
Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 86 out of 100
Based on 26 critics
Indicating “universal acclaim”
AlloCiné gave the film an average rating of 4.4/5
Based on 40 French reviews
The film has sold over 1 million admissions in France
On 13 September 2023, Anatomy of a Fall was one of the five films pre-selected by France’s Oscar committee to represent the country in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards
On 21 September 2023, France chose to submit The Taste of Things instead
This decision sparked controversy
With French insiders claiming that director Justine Triet was being “punished” for criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron’s repression of the pension reform protest movement during her acceptance speech at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival
On 10 July 2021, Variety reported that Les Films Pelléas and Les Films de Pierre would co-produce Justine Triet’s fourth feature film, Anatomie d’une chute, co-written by Triet and Arthur Harari
It was described as “a Hitchcockian procedural thriller”
Triet wrote Anatomy of a Fall for Sandra Hüller
Marking their second collaboration following the 2019 film Sibyl
When Hüller was cast in the role of a German writer who is accused of murdering her French husband in France, Triet told the actress that the language would be an important subject in the film
Hüller wanted to speak French in the film, but Triet rejected the idea
On set, Hüller repeatedly asked Triet whether her character was guilty or not
The director refused to answer
Triet said that the starting point of Anatomy of a Fall was that she wanted to make another trial film for a long time since her 2016 film In Bed with Victoria
Triet also said she was fascinated by the Amanda Knox case, which involved a young American woman accused of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007