After winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, “Anatomy of a Fall” is now one of the most-watched movies on Hulu. According to FlixPatrol, the legal drama currently holds the Top 7 spot of the most streamed list on the platform in the US.
The film, which was directed and co-written by Justine Triet, follows Sandra, played by Sandra Hüller, a writer who has to prove her innocence after her husband dies from a fall. The film also stars Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, and Jehnny Beth.
While it only won one Oscar, it was also nominated for Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Director and Best Picture. It was one of the three films directed by a woman (alongside Greta Gerwig‘s “Barbie” and Celine Song’s “Past Lives”) to compete for the latter category, making history.
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ was one of the best films of the year
Despite not being France’s submission for the Best International Film category, the French film has already garnered significant acclaim, having won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes. While its courtroom procedural storyline is compelling, the film delves deeper into the complexities of a troubled marriage.
Also, at the Golden Globes, it won for Best Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. It also won Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTAS, in which it was nominated for seven other awards.
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ portrays a complicated woman
Triet wrote the screenplay with her husband, Arthur Harari. However, the pair had an initial idea about a woman being on a trial, unclear if she was guilty or not, and then they worked on scenes separately, and then discussed them together.
In an interview with W magazine, Triet said that she wanted to make Sandra “complicated, like Marlene Dietrich in the film Witness for the Prosecution. At first, Dietrich seems like a femme fatale, in total control of men. And then you see another side completely—there’s something much more complex underneath.”
On the other hand, speaking to Deadline, Hüller said that she thinks the film shows “someone who just doesn’t apologize for being there with all she is; with her talent, with her way of loving, with her way of respecting others and leaving space for the feelings of others.”
