Anatomy of a Fall French: Anatomie d'une chute is a French legal drama film, [ 5 ] [ 10 ] directed by Justine Triet from a screenplay she co-wrote with Arthur Harari. It was released theatrically in France by Le Pacte on 23 August , receiving critical acclaim, selling over 1.
In an isolated mountain chalet near Grenoble , novelist Sandra Voyter decides to reschedule her interview with a female student because her husband, university lecturer Samuel Maleski, plays music loudly in their attic, disrupting the interview.
After the student drives away from the chalet, Sandra's visually impaired son, Daniel, takes a walk outside with his guide dog Snoop.
When they return home, Daniel finds Samuel dead from an apparent fall. Sandra insists that the fall must have been accidental.
Her old friend and lawyer, Vincent, suggests the possibility of suicide , while Sandra recalls her husband's attempt to overdose on aspirin six months earlier, after going off antidepressants. After an investigation, Daniel's conflicting accounts of what happened shortly before his father's death, combined with the revelation that Samuel sustained a head wound before his body hit the ground and an audio recording of a fight between Samuel and Sandra the previous day, Sandra is indicted on charges of homicide.
