‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ Director Justine Triet On Learning New Skills After Winning A Palme d’Or, Sparking A “Mini Revolution” For Women

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Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall has given her an experience unlike any other she’s had over her 15-year career — one that includes winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. “I would say that the job I’ve been doing since May is a job that I had never done before.

It’s a new craft entirely,” she says. Anatomy of a Fall, which she co-wrote with her partner Arthur Harari, eschews the traditional courtroom drama to explore familial relationships when an ambitious, sexually self-assured novelist, played by Sandra Hüller, is put on trial for the suspicious death of her husband Samuel at their home in the French Alps. DEADLINE: You wrote the part with Sandra Hüller in mind, having worked with her on your previous film, Sibyl.

Was there anything she brought to the role that surprised you? A moment you perhaps weren’t expecting? JUSTINE TRIET: Writing with Sandra in mind, even though Arthur and I were quite clear that we were trying to avoid certain stylistic tropes that would have to do with the genre film, we still had certain reflexes as authors that Sandra’s performance came to really erase once and for all.

Because she had this really interesting paradox that I think exists within herself, in the way that she is as a person also, and the kind of sincerity and transparency that she has.