Anatomy of a Fall
A movie about how deeply unserious and misogynistic the French are.
It doesn’t really do much new that other family-centered courtroom dramas haven’t done better save for exposing the many, often tiny biases against women that are engrained in society. The opposite of that same preconception that helps <PERSON>’s case in Kramer vs. Kramer mixed with <PERSON>’s uphill battle in Marriage Story.
Funny how mockumentary-ish the filmmaking was at points, which was clearly meant to evoke immediacy but instead took me out of it. 306
It works to its favor that it’s helmed by an immaculate leading performance. <PERSON> carefully balances fear and doubt and so much constrained emotion. She probably won this the Palm d’Or all by herself. 464