Anatomy of a Fall

A man is found dead in the snow beneath the window of an Alpine chalet. His wife, a German novelist, is the only other adult present; their visually impaired son, who was walking the dog, is the closest thing to a witness. From those bare facts, Justine Triet builds a courtroom procedural that turns increasingly on what a marriage actually was — not through flashback revelation but through the forensic dissection of audio recordings, testimony, and competing professional jealousies.

Sandra Hüller plays the accused as a woman who resists the shape the trial wants to press her into, which gives the film its friction. The son, played by Milo Machado-Graner, is positioned not as a plot device but as someone arriving at his own verdict by a different route than the jury.