Continuing my countdown of last year’s best films…

Best Films of 2023
#5. Anatomy of a Fall

Writer/director Justine Triet’s legal drama is the only movie on this list I’ve seen just once. It’s quite possible a second viewing will move it even higher.

This is a gripping courtroom thriller in which the guilt or innocence of the lead character is entirely beside the point. Did Sandra Huller’s Sandra, a successful novelist, push her husband off of their second floor balcony, or did he jump? Or was his falling death simply an accident?

Lawyers on both sides spend much of the runtime trying to make an argument one way or the other, but Triet is more interested in dissecting the dissection itself.

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