It has been hailed for its unconventional portrayal of a criminal trial, dissecting a couple’s relationship after a man’s deadly fall from the top floor of an Alpine chalet.
But the hit French arthouse whodunnit, Anatomy of a Fall, which competes at the Golden Globes this weekend after a series of wins at the European film awards, is also just one element of a wider of renaissance of French auteur films reinventing the courtroom drama.