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A Widow’s Game is a Spanish crime drama film directed by Carlos Sedes. Inspired by true events, the Netflix film revolves around the murder investigation of an engineer, which reveals hidden dark secrets about his seemingly perfect wife. A Widow’s Game stars Ivana Baquero, Tristán Ulloa, Carmen Machi, Joel Sánchez, and Álex Gadea. So, if you loved the intense drama, thrilling mystery, and complex characters in A Widow’s Game, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Gone Girl is a psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher from a screenplay by Gillian Flynn. Based on Flynn’s 2012 novel of the same name, the 2014 film follows Nick Dunne, who suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife’s sudden disappearance, but everything might not be as it seems.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival kicked off with Gerard Depardieu’s 18-month suspended sentence for sexual assault on two women during the filming of “The Green Shutters.” While that case itself has nothing to do with the festival, the sentencing of Depardieu, once a frequent presence at Cannes, was a reminder of how far France has come in embracing the #MeToo movement it was initially slow to champion.

And that wasn’t the only sign of shifting attitudes in the country and its most prominent showcase for cinema when it comes to sexual violence. This year, Cannes has issued a new rule banning filmmakers or talent accused of sexual misconduct from walking the red carpet and presenting films at the festival. Because of the change, the festival forbid Theo Navarro-Mussy from attending the premiere of Dominik Moll’s “Case 137” because he has been accused of rape and sexual assault.

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Anatomy Of A Fall, streaming on Netflix from Tuesday, April 29

Justine Triet's slowburn courtroom drama - written with her partner - Arthur Harari won the Cannes Palme d'Or before heading on a statuette-winning spree around the awards circuit, culminating in an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Sandra Hüller could also easily have won for her performance as writer Sandra Voyter, who stands accused of the murder of her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) at their remote mountain chalet. Their partially-sighted son Daniel (Milo Graner) finds his dad's body and the scene is set for an exploration of whether it was death by misadventure or planning which remains ambiguous to the last. Among several films from 2023 that scrutinised the way that someone presents themselves can be put on trial as much as their actual deeds, Triet leaves it up to us -...

Living with a spouse or life partner can be rough at times, and it is usually a couple's ability to soldier through difficult spells together that shows the true strength of their relationship. Introducing a child into the mix can also be challenging, often changing the dynamic and sometimes even upending traditional parental roles. But what if one of those rough patches ended with the sudden death of a partner?

That is the situation that Justine Triet presents in the opening moments of her Palme d'Or-winner "Anatomy of a Fall." However, she takes it one step further by adding another nightmarish layer to the scenario: What if the remaining partner became the prime suspect in her spouse's death and had to suffer the ignominy and stress of having her marriage raked over in court while also grieving her loss?

It's not exactly an original setup; murder mysteries focusing on a...

French film collective Respect launches industry-wide code of conduct for navigating sexual assault from script to screen

Around 30 French film industry professionals have formed the ‘Respect Group’ that has created a code of conduct to prevent sexual assault on film sets and provide a concrete tool kit for dealing with incidents should they occur.

The new initiative, whose name the “Groupe Respect” is an acronym that stands for “reactivity, ethics, safety, professionalism, efficiency, trust and transparency” in French, is being spearheaded by producers Caroline Bonmarchand of Avenue B Productions and Alice Girard of Rectangle Productions alongside head of women’s...

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At the end of Anatomy of a Fall, Sandra is acquitted, although the facts of the case still aren't entirely clear, making the true cause of Samuel's death ambiguous. The 2023 movie is a legal drama from French director Justine Triet, featuring performances from Sandra Hller, Swann Arlaud, Samuel Theis, Milo Machado Graner, and more. Anatomy of a Fall received great reviews and enjoyed lots of awards success, winning the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and picking up five Oscars 2024 nominations, winning for Best Original Screenplay.

After the mysterious death of her husband, Samuel (Samuel Theis), Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hller) becomes the prime suspect. Sandra's best defense is to claim Samuel died by suicide, which even she tells her lawyer, Vincent (Swann Arlaud), is implausible at first. The only person who can back up her version of events is her blind son,...

The cinematic landscape is not just for the sake of ‘entertainment’ and ‘merriment’ alone, for oftentimes it leaves the audiences with traces of unanswered questions, tickling their brain chemistry in the right way. While in 2023, movies like Barbie posed some very vital yet harsh questions about society and women, movies like Oppenheimer made viewers question the drawbacks of progress in the scientific world and the integrity of human morality.

On the other hand, in the same year, we had a French legal drama directed by Justine Triet which sparked the most curiosity among viewers. Called The Anatomy of a Fall, the film captivated audiences at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, drawing viewers into a complex web of emotional tension, courtroom intrigue, and personal revelations.

Anatomy of a Fall | Credit: Le Pacte

A tale that follows the gripping story of a writer trying to prove her innocence in the suspicious death of her husband,...

Ilça Moreno Zego and Louise Mauroy-Panzani in Àma Gloria. Marie Amachoukeli: 'The link between a nanny and her child is often stronger than the link between a mother and her child' Photo: UniFrance It took director Marie Amachoukeli quite a while to launch forth into her second feature Àma Gloria which explores the relationship between a nanny and her charge and all the taboos surrounding the subject.

Amachoukeli, who is French of Georgian extraction, had just finished Party Girl in 2014 (co-directed and written with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis) which won the Camera d’Or prize for a first film at the Cannes Film Festival. It tells of a 60-year-old woman who provides company for men at nightclubs on the French-German border and who decides to leave the street life behind her by marrying a regular customer.

Rather than seize the moment she explained: “I wanted to wait a while,...

Is space ample enough to withstand the power of two of Hollywood’s brightest stars? We’re about to find out when Oscar-nominated actress Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) co-stars alongside Ryan Gosling for the upcoming interstellar epic Project Hail Mary. The feature-length project hails from Amazon MGM Studios, with Amy Pascal, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, and Aditya Sood producing.

Lord and Miller will direct Project Hail Mary from a script by Drew Goddard. The film will be shot in IMAX and released wide on March 20, 2026. It is based on the Andy Weir novel of the same name—that’s right, the same guy who wrote The Martian. According to Deadline‘s exclusive report, the plot revolves around “a middle school science teacher, Ryland Grace (Gosling), who wakes up on a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must figure out how...

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall chaotically drops us into the chalet of Sandra (Sandra Hüller), Samuel (Samuel Theis), and their visually impaired young son, Daniel (Milo Machado Graner), in the French Alps. Sandra, a successful German writer, is in the midst of an interview with a visiting journalist (Camille Rutherford) that an unseen Samuel attempts to derail with his ceaseless blaring of an instrumental cover of 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.” from his upstairs office. Once her husband has succeeded at his mission, Sandra sends the journalist home before going upstairs to work herself. Not too long after, Samuel is found dead outside the house by Daniel, who had been walking around the property with the family dog.

As its title suggests, that series of events will be thoroughly dissected over Anatomy of a Fall’s runtime, first at the home and then in the courtroom. Did Samuel’s frequent...

Clockwise from top left: The Taste Of Things, Asteroid City, Fallen Leaves and Four Daughters With much of the Cannes programme now announced for 2024, including heavy hitters Francis Ford Coppola, Andrea Arnold and David Cronenberg, we're taking a look back at last year's Class of Cannes 2023 for our Streaming Spotlight last week - which ended up being a bumper year in terms of dominating the following awards season. This year's Cannes runs from May 14 to 25 and you can read all our coverage as it comes in here.

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Justine Triet's slowburn courtroom drama - written with her partner - Arthur Harari won the top prize Palme d'Or before heading on a statuette-winning spree around the awards circuit, culminating in an Oscar for Best Screenplay. Sandra Hüller could also easily have won for her performance as writer Sandra Voyter, who stands...

Spoilers are ahead for Anatomy of a Fall's ending.

Snoop, the canine in Anatomy of a Fall, defies "the dog dies" trope. Messi's portrayal of Snoop won the dog an award at the Cannes Film Festival. Daniel's connection with Snoop hints at the movie's final scene of Snoop and Sandra holding a deeper meaning.

Co-written by director Justine Triet, the Oscar-winning Anatomy of a Fall deftly avoids a movie trope that viewers absolutely detest. Not only was the film's narrative decision regarding the family dog a popular one with audiences, but it works in Anatomy of a Fall's favor, especially where its ending is concerned. Starring Sandra Hüller as a writer named Sandra Voyter, the film chronicles a woman's attempts to prove her innocence after her husband's tragic — and suspicious — demise. While on a retreat in the isolated mountains near Grenoble, Samuel (Samuel Theis) continually interrupts his wife's work.

One of the most acclaimed movies of the year is finally arriving on streaming. On Friday, March 22, the Academy Award-winning French film “Anatomy of a Fall” will be available to stream on Hulu. The film won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay earlier this month as it follows a trial into the death of a man as his wife is charged with his murder. Directed by Justine Triet, the film is an incredible look into the courtroom and how different perspectives can lead to different truths. You can watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Hulu.

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In “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sandra is accused of her husband Samuel’s murder after he falls out...

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After Blue (Bertrand Mandico)

In the post-apocalyptic nightmare of After Blue, humanity—or what’s left of it—roams a former paradise turned wasteland. The Armageddon that wrecked the Earth in some undetermined past left no machines behind, no screens, and, perhaps most conspicuously, no men. In the distant planet the human race fled to, and which writer-director Bertrand Mandico’s film is named after, “they were the first to die,” we’re warned early on: “their hairs grew inside them, and killed them.” As it was for its predecessor, The Wild Boys, After Blue is suffused in a feverish ecstasy, that wild excitement that comes from a watching one world crumble and another jutting into being from scratch, a vision of...

Anatomy of a Fall actress Sandra Hüller could be making a roast for Akiva Schaffer’s The Naked Gun reboot, so how hot and wet do you like it? A report from industry insider Daniel Richtman says Sandra Hüller is in talks to play the romantic lead in the forthcoming comedy, starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin from the Police Squad series and Naked Gun film trilogy.

In the Naked Gun trilogy, Lt. Frank Drebin falls in love with Jane Spencer (Lisa Marie Presley), an assistant for industrialist Vincent Ludwig, utterly unaware of his villainy. After a slapstick-ridden meet-cute, Frank and Jane form a heated courtship accompanied by steamy home-cooked meals, ultra-protected sex, and trips to the baseball field.

How Liam Neeson and Hüller’s characters cross paths in the Naked Gun reboot remains a mystery. We must also wait...

French legal drama Anatomy of a Fall‘s against-the-odds global box office run isn’t over just yet. The acclaimed courtroom thriller, which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or in 2023 and the Oscar for best original screenplay last week, has secured a nationwide theatrical release date in China on March 29.

Chinese specialty distributor Road Pictures will handle the local marketing and release of Anatomy of a Fall in partnership with the state-backed China Film Group. The film’s writer and director Justine Triet will attend a local premiere event in Beijing on March 24.

Anatomy of a Fall is being positioned as a specialty release, but its feminist themes could align well with a recent trend of women-focused stories being a major box office force in China. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie defied early expectations last year to become a word-of-mouth hit by resonating with China’s young urban women,...

2024 Oscar Snubs: Killers of the Flower Moon & Maestro ( Photo Credit – IMDb )

The 2024 Oscar saw Oppenheimer bag seven awards, including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Picture. Poor Things won four awards at the Academy this year. However, there were some big 2023 movies that either won just one or not even a single award. Like every year, we witnessed again how some movies, directors or actors’ work got completely unrecognised.

From Robert De Niro’s Killers of the Flower Moon to Bradley Cooper’s Maestro, many famous films were brutally ignored at the 2024 Oscar ceremony. We have listed several such movies that were nominated in different categories, but got snubbed by the Academy.

Major 2024 Oscar Snubs – Killers of The Flower Moon

The Martin Scorsese directorial received ten Oscar nominations this year – from Best Director to Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro). To everyone’s surprise, the film didn’t win a single award.

The French legal drama film, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’, has clinched the honour for the Best Original Screenplay at the ongoing 96th edition of the Academy Awards. The film, directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay she co-wrote with Arthur Harari, stars Sandra Huller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death. Appearing in supporting roles are Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth, Saadia Bentaieb, Camille Rutherford, Anne Rotger and Sophie Fillieres.

The official X handle of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, congratulated the actress as they tweeted, “Congratulations to Justine Triet and Arthur Harari on winning Best Original Screenplay for ‘Anatomy of a Fall’! #Oscars.”

Earlier, ‘Anatomy of a Fall’, which premiered at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2023, won the Palme d’Or and the Palm Dog Award.

The 96th Academy Awards are currently underway...

Crank up that steel drum cover of 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P”! “Anatomy of a Fall” has scored the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Director Justine Triet and her husband and co-writer Arthur Harari took the stage at the Dolby Theater on March 10 to accept the trophy.

In winning the award, Triet and Harari beat out several other Best Picture nominees to claim the top prize. Also nominated in the category were David Hemingson for “The Holdovers,” Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer for “Maestro,” and Celine Song for “Past Lives.” The sole non-Best Picture nominee recognized in the category was “May December,” which received its sole Oscar nomination for Samy Burch’s script.

The Original Screenplay Oscar is the latest award that Triet’s courtroom drama received during the past Awards season. Triet and Harari won in the same category at the British Academy Film Awards, the Golden Globes, and the French César Awards.

Anatomy of a Fall.Anatomy of a Fall (2023) begins with a black screen and an auditory fragment: a short exchange between writer Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) and a young student who’s come to interview her about her career. When the film’s image and sound come into sync, both of them realize that the student’s phone has failed to record their conversation. Reality, seemingly, starts only when the “record” button has been pressed.We never see the titular fall in Justine Triet’s courtroom drama, only a corpse. The moment when Sandra’s husband, Samuel Maleski (Samuel Theis), plunges to his death from the attic of their chalet is presented only in simulations, both speculative flashbacks based on courtroom testimony and technical reenactments from expert witnesses. Though a trial is ostensibly a search for the truth, Triet's film is a metacinematic treatise on epistemology, showing only so much...

Dialling into a unique relationship dynamic that isn’t portrayed in cinema, Marie Amachoukeli, who won the Camera d’Or award at the 2014 edition of the Cannes Film Festival for Party Girl (co-directed and written with Claire Burger and Samuel Theis) moved into her solo directorial outing with a story that was always there… Titled Àma Gloria and receiving its world premiere in the Critics’ Week section in Cannes in 2023, it made its Sundance debut as one of four Spotlight section films this past January — and introduced audiences to the diminutive but towering performance from Cléo – a little six-year old child dealing with her own interpersonal issues and heartbreak.…...

Get ready to stream Anatomy of a Fall on Hulu starting on March 22, following the 2024 Oscars on March 10. Fans eagerly await the Best Picture-nominated film's release after the prestigious awards ceremony. Stay tuned for more updates on the highly anticipated streaming debut of Anatomy of a Fall.

The Best Picture-nominated film Anatomy of Fall's streaming release date has been revealed. Directed by Justine Triet, the French film follows a woman who is put on trial after her husband mysteriously falls to his death, with their visually impaired son being called to testify on the witness stand. Over the course of the trial, the collapse of the couple's marriage becomes apparent. Sandra Hüller leads the cast alongside Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth, and Sophie Fillières.

Today, Anatomy of Fall's streaming release date was revealed. Per Variety, the Best Picture-nominated film will become available to stream on Hulu starting on March 22. Unfortunately,...

Ahead of the Oscars ceremony airing Sunday, March 10 on ABC, you will have the option to watch one of the year’s most-nominated films.

Poor Things, which is nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture, Director and Cinematography, and for which Emma Stone is vying for Best Lead Actress, is set to hit Hulu on Thursday, March 7.

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The creative process can sometimes be highly organized, and others completely ephemeral: for every story that’s been mapped out beat by beat there’s another that arrived completely intact from a writer’s fingers in a feverish outpouring of inspiration. Somewhere in between these extremes is the unglamorous, frequently tedious work of chipping away at an idea, a sequence, or line of dialogue that gets to the heart of what a scribe wants to say — or more precisely, hopes to communicate.

Ahead of the Academy Awards on March 10, Variety spoke with several of the screenwriters nominated in the categories of original and animated screenplay about the scenes they found most difficult to write. Whether it was identifying the kernel of an idea from which the rest of their narrative popped or translating the inspiration of source material (or real life) to something dramatically credible on the page, they explain...

Anatomy of a Fall French producer Marie-Ange Luciani put in a flying appearance at the Berlinale this week with Claire Burger’s coming-of-age drama Langue Étrangère which received a warm reception in competition.

With the Berlin premiere taking place the day after the Baftas in London (where Anatomy of a Fall won Best Screenplay) and eight days before the January 27 voting deadline for this year’s Academy Awards, Luciani was also in the thick of the awards campaign.

She co-produced the Oscar hopeful with David Thion at Les Films Pelléas under the banner of her Paris-based banner Les Films de Pierre, the company created by Yves Saint Laurent’s long-time business and life partner Pierre Bergé which she acquired on his death in 2018.

New production Langue Étrangère is a bittersweet coming-of-age tale starring Lilith Grasmug as French teenager Fanny who travels to Germany on language exchange trip. Her German counterpart...

From the moment editor Laurent Sénéchal read the script for Anatomy of a Fall, he knew he had a challenge ahead of him when it came to the crucial flashback showing a drag-out fight between Sandra (Sandra Hüller), an author on trial, and her husband, Samuel (Samuel Theis), who fell to his death off the roof of their Alpine home.

The scene arrives in the middle of Sandra’s trial over her role in Samuel’s plummet. What begins as just audio played for the courtroom is eventually brought to life for the audience watching the film. “When I was reading, I didn’t really know what would be the point of view,” Sénéchal says. “It’s like the point of view of God. For me, it was a bit tricky.”

That sequence is crucial to the success of director Justine Triet’s movie, which is Oscar-nominated for editing, as...

Thousands of Gold Derby users, representing the savviest awards pundits and cineastes on the web, voted for the 22nd Annual Gold Derby Film Awards over recent weeks. The biographical drama “Oppenheimer” came out on top with 10 victories including Best Picture. That sets a new record for the most awards won by a film in a single year. Watch the 30-minute ceremony video above, which includes almost all winners with fun acceptance speeches. Scroll down for the complete list of winners in all 22 categories.

SEEWill the Oscars be a rerun of the BAFTAs?

In addition to Best Picture, “Oppenheimer” claimed Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Christopher Nolan, who previously won Gold Derby Awards for directing “The Dark Knight” and writing “Inception.” It also won Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.) and Best Ensemble Cast. In below-the-line races it was honored for its film editing, score,...

When real-life couple Justine Triet and Arthur Harari set out to write Anatomy of a Fall, about a woman on trial for the murder of her husband, they built the story on relationships first and foremost.

“The first embryo was the relationship between the son and the mother and the idea of the son discovering he doesn’t really know who his mother is,” Harari said during a panel Saturday at Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event. “And then the possibility of talking in a very deep and true way: What is a couple?”

In the Palme d’Or-winning film directed by Triet, Sandra Hüller stars as Sandra Voyter, a writer whose husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) has died after falling off the balcony of their home in the French Alps. As Sandra stands accused of pushing Samuel to his death, her partially sighted son Daniel (Milo Machado-Graner) is the...

With film distributors becoming stingier about physical media and defaulting to streaming, The Criterion Collection has been picking up slack. For instance, Criterion has released physical copies of acclaimed Netflix originals like "The Irishman," "Roma," and "Marriage Story."

Joining the collection in May 2024 is Justine Triet's "Anatomy of a Fall," just released in North America back in October 2023 by Neon. As Criterion confirmed on Twitter, the film enters the collection alongside classics such as Michael Powell's "Peeping Tom."

Does "Anatomy of a Fall" deserve to be in such company? We at /Film think so, since we ranked it one of the 15 best movies of 2023. If you don't believe us, it won the Palme d'Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival (the highest prize), and it's up for several Oscars at the 96th Academy Awards (including Best Picture and Best Director for Justine Triet).

The film's title homages the classic...

[Editor’s note: The following interview includes spoilers for “Anatomy of a Fall.”]

All dogs deserve to play fetch on the beach. But for Messi, who starred as Snoop in “Anatomy of a Fall,” getting to enjoy Venice Beach — as well as a business class trip to the Oscars nominee luncheon and lots of quality pets from Bradley Cooper and Billie Eilish — is the culmination of months of hard work with his trainer, Laura Martin Contini.

Every time we see a dog in a film, the goal is for them to look like they’re just doing their own doggy thing and responding to the characters in a genuine way; how could dogs not? But each action, from lying down to running after a ball (Messi’s favorite), requires specific preparation so that the canine actor is ready for their closeup.

“Even the simplest things take a lot of work,” Martin Contini told IndieWire. And more complicated actions, like...

[Editor’s note: IndieWire reached out to “Killers of the Flower Moon” editing nominee Thelma Schoonmaker, but she was unavailable to participate.]

This season’s Best Editing Oscar nominees (which are also nominated for Best Picture) all explore existential crises, which make them dramatically compelling and relatable. Four of the editors — Laurent Sénéchal (“Anatomy of Fall”), Kevin Tent (“The Holdovers”), Jennifer Lame (“Oppenheimer“), and Yorgos Mavropsaridis (“Poor Things”) — selected a pivotal scene or sequence that best showcases their work, telling IndieWire how the scenes explore rhythm and pace, character importance, and why it was so challenging to get right.

In Justine Triet’s gripping murder mystery, “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sénéchal delicately balances point of view through memory and imagination, as Best Actress nominee Sandra Hüller stands trial for the murder of her husband. Through this crucible, the novelist is forced to confront love, marriage, parenting, guilt, fear, regret, and ruthless ambition.

In Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers,...

Anatomy of a Fall received five Oscar nominations, including Best Actress for Sandra Hüller, but one of the film's standout performances was by a dog. Messi, the border collie who played Snoop in Anatomy of a Fall, delivered a memorable and convincing performance, particularly in a dramatic scene involving Snoop's near-death experience. While animals are not eligible for Oscar nominations, Messi received special recognition at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival with the Palm Dog Award.

A five-time nominated film at the 2024 Oscars featured one of the best performances of 2023, but the actual performer wasn't nominated because they're a dog. 2023 was a truly exceptional year for film all around, making for an impressive list of 2024 Oscar nominees across all categories. The acting categories at the 2024 Oscars are especially stacked with deserving nominees who gave outstanding performances in 2023 films.

With only five slots in each of the four acting categories, tons of...

In her first Palm d’Or-winning feature film, Anatomy of a Fall, Justin Triet, like an expert surgeon wielding a scalpel, skillfully peels back the layers of this seemingly stable relationship, revealing concealed wounds and smoldering resentments that have festered beneath the surface for years. The once-intact facade of marital bliss crumbles as the protagonist Sandra (Sandra Hüller) navigates through the emotionally charged terrain of a relationship in turmoil. Triet’s narrative approach delicately dissects the intricacies of the characters’ emotions, laying bare the layers of suppressed anger and aggression that have built up over time. The film becomes a poignant exploration of the fragile equilibrium that exists between understanding and compromise in a long-term relationship. The thin bridge upon which the characters tread precariously reveals the delicate balance that has held the union together, even as the weight of unresolved issues threatens to tip the scales. Set against the...

The Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2024 will celebrate its 21st edition from July 13th (Sat) to 21st (Sun), 2024 for 9 days at Skip City, which is an integrated institution for digital cinema production.

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An instrumental cover of 50 Cent's "P.I.M.P." soundtracks the death of the lead character's husband in Anatomy of a Fall, an event for which she is put on trial for murder. German funk group Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band performs the instrumental version of "P.I.M.P." featured in Anatomy of a Fall, which was chosen after director Justine Triet was unable to secure the rights to Dolly Parton's "Jolene" for the opening scene. The 50 Cent cover plays a significant role in the murder case and is used as a narrative tool to better understand the couple's relationship and the circumstances of his death.

This article contains spoilers for Anatomy of a FallAn instrumental cover of rapper 50 Cent's song, "P.I.M.P.", plays a key role in the Oscar-nominated courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Fall. Directed by Justine Triet, the film follows German writer Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller), who becomes the prime suspect...

This article contains major Anatomy of a Fall spoilers.

Justine Triet’s new film, which just picked up nominations for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay, and Director at the Oscars, as well as the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year, is a courtroom drama following a woman accused of killing her husband. The man in question was found dead after falling out of the window of their remote cabin. There were no witnesses. She says she didn’t do it. Did he fall? Did he jump? Or is she guilty? That’s for the court to decide in this fascinating character study that feels intense and real, and challenges the audience to do the work along with the jury.

The beauty of Anatomy of a Fall is that by the end we, the audience, don’t know conclusively whether Sandra (Sandra Hüller – who is nominated for the Best Actress Oscar...

Thomas Cailley’s sci-fi thriller The Animal Kingdom and Justin Triet’s Oscar-nominated courtroom drama Anatomy Of A Fall rose to the top of the nominations at France’s Cesar awards.

The Animal Kingdom, a supernatural twist on a father-son drama that first premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, has been nominated for 12 awards including best film and will vie in that category against the five-time Academy-award nominated, Palme d’Or-winning Anatomy Of A Fall with 11 nominations, alongside Cédric Kahn’s The Goldman Case, Jeanne Herry’s All Your Faces and Jean-Baptiste Durand’s Junkyard Dogs.

Cailley, Triet, Kahn and...

First-time Oscar nominee Sandra Hüller stars in the French drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” playing a novelist who becomes a murder suspect after her husband (Samuel Theis) tumbles out of their home’s second-story window and dies. Written and directed by Justine Triet (nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay), the movie has been one of awards season’s biggest sleeper hits. It received five Oscar nominations in total, including Best Picture. Here is how you can see “Anatomy of a Fall.”

Is “Anatomy of a Fall” available online?

Yes, “Anatomy of a Fall” is available for digital rental and purchase at all the major online providers, including Apple TV, YouTube, Prime Video, and Google Play. It is not currently streaming anywhere.

Is “Anatomy of a Fall” still in theaters?

Yes, the film is still playing in some theaters across the U.S., particularly independent venues and small chains like Alamo Drafthouse.

The nominations for the 96th Oscars revealed Tuesday included a diverse mix of Best Picture contenders, from box office blockbusters and festival favorites to sweeping streamer epics and indie darlings.

Deadline reviewed all 10 of the nominees, beginning with Past Lives, when it captured all the Sundance buzz in January; followed by Killers of the Flower Moon, eventual Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest in May at Cannes; tracking the Barbenheimer duo of Barbie and Oppenheimer dominating the summer box office; and seeing Poor Things, Maestro, The Holdovers and American Fiction during the fall festival whoosh of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.

Click on the titles to read the Deadline critics’ full reviews of the films that will be vying for the marquee statuette in March.

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The Oscars, it seems, agree with The Hollywood Reporter: Sandra Hüller is a star.

When THR put the German actress on its cover for its Toronto Film Festival issue, it was under the headline “Actress of the Year?” It was an acknowledgment that Hüller had given two of the most outstanding performances in film in 2023: as a novelist accused of murder in Justine Triet’s mystery thriller Anatomy of a Fall and as a domestic Nazi in Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest.

On Tuesday, Hüller scored a nomination for the 2024 Oscars in the best actress category for Anatomy of a Fall. Both Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest were also nominated in the best picture and best director categories.

In Anatomy, Hüller plays Sandra Voyter, a successful German novelist living in the French Alps who may or may not have murdered...

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But the French remain divided over him due to his profile as a mascot of the country’s cinematic history. He’s starred in over 150 films, including classics such as Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” François Truffaut’s “Le Dernier Metro” and Bertrand Blier’s “Going Places.” However, the tide is starting to shift — while French President Emmanuel Macron refused to revoke his Legion of Honor, the Paris wax museum went ahead and removed his statue on Dec.

Samuel Theis has been accused of rape by a crew member who worked on his upcoming movie Je te jure, which he directed.

The 45-year-old actor and filmmaker is best known for his performance in the new movie Anatomy of a Fall, which just won two awards at the Golden Globes.

Samuel plays the husband of Sandra Huller‘s character in the movie.

French newspaper Liberation reported that a male crew member accused Samuel of rape during a cast and crew party that took place at an apartment halfway through the shoot of Je te jure. The anonymous crew member says that he stayed at the apartment as he was inebriated and he claims that Samuel raped him in the early morning hours.

Samuel claims that the encounter was consensual.

Instead of being fired from the project, producers figured out a way for Samuel to continue directing the movie without being in the room.

Actor and director, who plays the husband in the Oscar-tipped drama, is accused of rape during production of another film

The French actor and film-maker Samuel Theis, known for his role in Oscar-tipped drama Anatomy of a Fall, has been accused of rape.

According to Variety, Theis was removed from a film he was directing called Je Le Jure after a crew member claimed that he was sexually assaulted. In a report published by the French newspaper Liberation, the alleged incident took place this July after a party held at an apartment.

French actor-director Samuel Theis, best known for starring in Justine Triet’s awards season favorite Anatomy of a Fall, has been accused of rape by a crew member on Je te jure (I Swear), Theis’ latest directorial feature.

The French newspaper Libération broke the story and reported that the alleged assault took place last year at a party held in an apartment rented by the production where the crew member said they were too inebriated to consent to a sexual encounter with Theis.

Theis responded to Libération’s report, telling the newspaper that the encounter was consensual. His lawyer added in response that his client has not been charged or contacted by authorities. The newspaper reported that the crew member quit the production immediately after the alleged assault.

Je te jure is currently in post-production. According to Libération, Theis was ordered to complete his work on the title remotely by...

Samuel Theis, a French actor-director known for starring in this year’s “Anatomy of a Fall” as the husband to Sandra Hüller’s character, has been accused of sexual assault by a crew member on his new film, a French production called “Je le jure” (“I Swear”).

According to a report in Libération from January 5 (via Screen Daily), the crew member accused Theis of raping him at a party last summer when the alleged victim was too drunk to consent. The alleged incident took place in Metz, France at an apartment rented for the production.

Theis told the publication the encounter was consensual, and his lawyer told Libération he has not been charged with any crime to date. The crew member quit the production immediately after the alleged assault.

Post-production is continuing on “I Swear,” but according to Libération, the production company Avenue B has forced Theis to complete the project remotely away from crew,...

Samuel Theis, who played the husband of Sandra Hüller’s character in Justine Triet’s Golden Globe-winning film “Anatomy of a Fall,” was ousted from the shoot of his third directorial outing, “Je te jure,” after being accused of rape by a crew member, Variety has confirmed. For the remainder of production, Theis remained on location but directed the film remotely.

The alleged sexual assault took place halfway through the shoot, in the aftermath of a party held at an apartment with the cast and crew on July 1, according to the French newspaper Liberation. The crew member spent the night in the flat where the party was held due to his state of inebriation and alleged he was raped by Theis in the early morning hours. The filmmaker, meanwhile, has argued that it was consensual, according to Liberation.

Shortly after, the crew member decided to leave the shoot. “Je te...

The alleged rape took place during production of Theis’ Je Le Jure last summer.

Samuel Theis, the French co-star of Justine Triet’s awards season hopeful Anatomy Of A Fall has been accused of rape by a crew member on his upcoming directorial feature Je Le Jure and has been forced to continue directing from a remote location, according to a report in France’s Liberation newspaper on January 5.

The alleged rape occurred last summer at a party where the crew member said they were too inebriated to consent to a sexual encounter with Theis in an apartment rented by the production in Metz,...

The alleged rape took place during production of Theis’ Je Le Jure last summer.

Samuel Theis, the French co-star of Justine Triet’s awards season hopeful Anatomy Of A Fall has been accused of rape by a crew member on his upcoming directorial feature Je Le Jure and has been forced to continue directing from a remote location, according to a report in France’s Liberation newspaper on January 5.

The alleged rape occurred last summer at a party where the crew member said they were too inebriated to consent to a sexual encounter with Theis in an apartment rented by the production in Metz,...

No actor has had a bigger breakout year in the awards circuit than Sandra Hüller, who has spent her 25-year career in European cinema, with prestige films such as “Requiem” (2006), “In the Aisles” (2018) and the Oscar-nominated “Toni Erdmann” (2016). This year, the German actress stars in two of the biggest international awards contenders: Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” from the United Kingdom and Poland, and Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anatomy of a Fall” from France, the latter of which she is nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Film Drama Actress. Will she clinch the first major precursor award of the season on Sunday, January 7?

This is Hüller’s second collaboration with Triet, previously starring in her 2019 film “Sibyl.” In “Anatomy of a Fall,” she plays Sandra Voyter, a woman accused of murdering her husband, and trying to prove her innocence as she is put on trial.