Location: Rubenstein Arts Center Film Theater
Anatomy of a Fall
(Justine Triet, 2023, 151 min, France, French w/ English subtitles and English, DCP)
-- Q&A to follow with Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies) and Barbara Halla (Romance Studies)
Justine Triet’s drama is a riveting procedural and a delicate inquiry into the impossibility of an ultimate truth in human relationships. When the husband of famous novelist Sandra Voyter (played by Toni Erdmann’s Sandra Hüller) is found dead on the ground outside their chalet in the French Alps, authorities suspect that she might have been responsible, as the impact and position of his body suggest a push rather than a fall. Triet’s fiercely intelligent, emotionally devastating film dissects the ways we create subjective narratives for ourselves and others and questions the insufficiency of language to describe the essential mysteries each of us possesses. At its core is the brilliant Hüller, whose Sandra is articulate, open, and utterly inscrutable.
“An intricately layered, surgically controlled drama that operates as both a courtroom thriller and an investigation of the mysterious recesses of domestic life.” – The Hollywood Reporter
“[A] Hitchcockian thriller for today.” – New Statesman
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Screen/Society screenings are free and open to the public.
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Contact: Hank Okazaki
Email: hokazak@duke.edu
Sponsor: Center for French and Francophone Studies
Co-Sponsors: Albertine Cinemathèque, a program of FACE Foundation and Villa Albertine; Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, Romance Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and Duke Cinematic Arts.