“Anatomie d’une chute” is anything but a typical dull legal drama. At its core is a mysterious death. It’s a legal drama set in the recent past in a chalet in the French Alps near Grenoble and a courtroom in Grenoble, France. It follows the investigation and trial of a female novelist charged with the death of her husband, also a novelist. There are various ways to approach this story. It could have been an investigative thriller in the style of David Fincher, but it’s not. Justine Triet knows exactly what she wants to extract from it. She is more interested in showing it through the eyes of the people involved and does an astonishing job in this regard. Rather than the quest for the truth, the script is more concerned with how people react to the bits of information they come across. It is one of the most realistically human films in its approach to unknown facts. It doesn’t aim for flashy cinematic spectacle, but it provides plenty to engage your gray matter every time you think about it. [In English]