“Anatomy of a fall”, let’s celebrate the triumph Triet – Liberation

2023-08-18 20:56:29

The theatrical release on Wednesday of Justine Triet’s event film is an opportunity for “Liberation” to salute this jewel, which miraculously returned to gold from the last Cannes Film Festival, and its far-sighted and committed filmmaker.

So, did she push her husband? “Don’t reveal the end of the film, I don’t have another,” asked Hitchcock, but the least that can be said of the heroine of Anatomy of a Fall is that she would be able. Masterfully interpreted by Sandra Hüller, this woman sees equality within the couple as a utopia and marital dispute as a battle of ideas where “violence will happen anyway”, as director Justine Triet tells us, who has wrote the screenplay with her husband. From its first screening in Cannes, Libé applauded its ability “to gather existence in its very immediate modalities, staircase where a ball falls, children in the vicinity, to make it the material of a work marrying, in its least reliefs and accidents, the very contours of life”. It was with her actress that we met her, in a cross interview from which the institution of the couple does not come out unscathed, especially in a triangle where “the child in the vicinity” is in fact omnipresent. We are both very far and very close to previous films on this subject, from Ingmar Bergman to Noah Baumbach via Maurice Pialat. Because like the directors before the authorization of the divorce, those of Death Insurance or The Postman Always Rings Twice, we have to end it differently; we will remember. It happens that the Cannes Film Festival rewards an extraordinary film, it may be that this film is French and it has even happened – three times in seventy years – that the palme d’or has been awarded to a female director. It is therefore a triple miracle that Libé is celebrating this weekend, on the eve of the theatrical release of this event film, an exciting and clear work by a filmmaker who has so far made little effort to put herself forward. Quite the opposite, therefore, of the Minister of Culture, who instead of congratulating the author, preferred to try to usurp her place in the spotlight by being indignant at her speech, which was too political and not grateful enough for her taste. . No matter, the ministers pass and are forgotten, while Anatomy of a fall will remain.