This French drama centres on whether a man's fall from an upper window of his Swiss chalet is suicide, or murder, with the other options of accident, or an attack from an unknown assailant having been ruled out. The story switches between the trial, and flashbacks to the couple's relationship, with the evidence seeming to swing one way and then the other. I felt a little uneasy that a lot of the evidence being discussed is subjective opinion - expert witnesses are subjected to ridicule, and the barristers seem able to continually interrupt each other at will. My biggest objection is that for a film that is 2.5 hours long provides us with no twist or big reveal at its conclusion. Maybe that's a sign of bravery, but it just left me feeling a sense of bathos.
Review of Anatomy of a Fall
