‘Anatomy of a Fall’ review: An outstanding, suspenseful, dark courtroom drama

Samuel Theis as Samuel Maleski, Sandra Hüller as Sandra Voyter and Milo Machado Graner as Daniel in Anatomy of a Fall courtesy of Lionsgate and Picturehouse Entertainment

Some movies are very straightforward. What you see is what you get. The truth is out there for everyone to see. However, there are also many films in which the truth is much more blurry and unclear, and Anatomy of a Fall is undoubtedly one of those. This latest movie by director/co-writer Justine Triet (Sibyl) demands you to figure out the truth for yourself. The case you have to wrap your head around is the one about a woman’s husband who died after a fall from the attic. Was his fall an accident, a suicide or a murder? Anatomy of a Fall gives you many clues, twists and turns, but most importantly, it gives you an outstanding suspenseful, dark courtroom drama and a tour-de-force by Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann)

Hüller plays Sandra Voyter, a famous author who’s about to give another interview. As the chat continues, the conversation with the female interviewer (Camille Rutherford) becomes much more flirtatious (which indicates that there’s much more to Sandra than it seems) but also uncontrollable. Sandra’s husband Samuel Maleski’s (Samuel Theis) music — an instrumental version of 50 Cent’s P.I.M.P — is loud and overpowering. It’s difficult for the women to hear each other, and when Samuel puts the music even louder, the interview is terminated. The interviewer leaves, and not much later, Sandra and Samuel’s…