The title “Anatomy of a Fall” may imply this movie is all about a person’s death, but this foreign film analyzes much more.
Taking place in southeast France, “Anatomy of a Fall” opens with the death of Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), who appears to have been killed by a fall from one of his home’s top floors. An autopsy, though, finds he suffered an injury before he hit the ground.
This puts suspicion on Samuels’s wife Sandra (Sandra Huller), and after some investigation, she is arrested and brought to trial. The film then explores the cause of the death through the trail, as well as a marriage that was fracturing long before the inciting incident.
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