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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sophie Monks Kaufman

Anatomy of a Fall movie review: gorgeously poised psychodrama

French director Justine Triet made Cannes history in May as the third woman to win the festival’s highest honour, the Palme d’Or, with her shapeshifting psychodrama powered by an actress at the top of her game. 

Successful novelist Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) finds husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) dead in the snow outside their Alpine chalet, his blood staining a kingdom of white. Rather, their blind 11-year-old son Daniel (Milo Machado Graner, brilliant) finds the body and Sandra finds herself the prime suspect in a murder investigation. But maybe it was an accident?

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