This was a Cannes that has turned out to be mostly about love — about how love is thwarted, how it is denied, how it is misinterpreted, but also how it is nurtured and how it survives.
Justine Triet’s courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall was not my choice for the Palme d’Or but what an excellent film it is: deeply intelligent and very grownup, a film whose meanings recede even as you pursue them and given an arrowhead of emotional force by its German star: Sandra Hüller, playing a writer in a dysfunctional relationship.
