Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, 2022)

Trigger warnings: suicide

Awards and nominations: won the  Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. It also won six awards at the 49th César Awards, including Best Film and received five nominations at the 96th Academy Awards

Synopsis

The closer we look, the less we know in Justine Triet’s masterful, Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall, an eerily riveting courtroom thriller that examines the line where truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth. When Sandra Voyter (a transfixing Sandra Hüller), a writer who turns the material of her life into autofiction, is put on trial for the suspicious death by defenestration—or was it suicide?—of her husband, it opens up an inquiry that will turn a troubled home inside out. Tapping into the minimalist intensity of a chamber drama—and using intricate, elliptical editing—Triet constructs a mystery that is ultimately less about a death than about the hidden lives we lead.