“Anatomy of a Fall,” April 28, 2024 (2023), Hulu (with commercials). We both really liked Justine Triet’s much nominated/awarded (Oscar for Best Original Screenplay), disturbing, “did he jump or was he pushed” tale set in the French Alps.
Sandra (Sandra Huller) is a successful author who frames her novels based on the lives and experiences of those around her. She shares the chalet with her husband Sanuel, a former academic who has been unable to write the novels he dreamed of while Sandra takes a part of his work and builds it into a novel of her own. Their marriage had fractured after an injury to their son Daniel (Milo Machado-Graner) that left the boy vision-impaired and was followed by marital infidelities.
Daniel returns from a walk to find his father dead in the snow in front of their chalet. What follows is a murder case that both takes you into the French legal system (very different from the US) and the internal workings of an exceptionally volatile marriage with Daniel caught in the middle. So how do you end a failed and tumultuous union?
This is a well-done tale with excellent acting. We, the audience, are the real jury here, each of us judging (as we always do) these deeply flawed characters.