Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, winning the Palme d'Or, and the future of French cinema

[@Go2daFuture]

This is so much a better interview than one I just saw by NYFF. Kudos to you for seating the director where she seems most comfortable to give away precisely what we want extracted from a director of a film we just watched, mesmerized.

[@drewsacks]

It's so great to see this interview where Justine speaks in her own language. I'm fortunate enough to speak French as I lived there for quite some time. I've always found Tom's manner of doing interviews to be at a very high level. He just gets it. Thanks for posting this. I really appreciate it.

[@eshaandeshmukh7872]

I watched the film here in India at IFFI, and the entire auditorium was filled! The movie was such a delight to watch on the big screen and everyone enjoyed it thoroughly. I was very interested in digging further and listening to the director. Thank you for this conversation!

[@adelaferreira4575]

I have not seen the film,but there’s so much talk about it ,the star and writer that I watch this interview,I used to speak a little French it’s gone since I never got to used it ,but I love the interview,I think there are no more comments because it’s hard to follow the subtitles ,it’s a great movie made and star by woman which is great !

[@TheTeeProd]

great interview

[@flowecstatic]

thank you very interesting to feel the interest and the high level of questions

[@soniap5708]

Beautiful movie❤

[@jakethepitador2558]

This interview only had one lonely comment, so I'm adding another. 😁

[@drewsacks]

Ok, now there's more than two 😊. Agree that this wonderful interview deserves much more attention than it's getting so far. It's the CBC and a fair portion of Canada does speak French after all.

[@ARTEYCRIMEN]

J'ai aimé beaucoup le film!!! c'est très génial!!

[@percyweasley9301]

Good interview...

[@fuhyou3223]

Where is Tom’s interview with John Mayer?

[@TucoRope2Tight]

I wish people wouldn't always end up talking about movies as if they were books. Film is a visual medium first. I'd like to hear more about the visual form, than the constant analysis of plot and subtext.

[@YK-BCS-KY]

She heard her son yelling and calling her when he found his father dead! Q: How can she sleep 💤 with music on full loud, yet, wakes from her son shouting and yelling? A: She is a compulsive liar from start, stealing from his book, cheating, her bruises on the arm..what a narcissist. The son lied at the end to save his mother. Heck, he even tried to kill the dog. Like mother like son.

[@looney1023]

You're really angry about a complete work of fiction that is designed to be vague

[@chimaera_2330]

She was using earplugs. When she heard her son, she'd taken them out. She says it in the film. I believe Snoop killed him accidentally when Samuel played with him at the beginning with the ball.

[@dr.pennington1664]

agree with the previous commenter. There is no real answer to whether or not she did it. It's supposed to be ambiguous because we as the viewers project our own experiences onto the characters. The director says that she is happy when people disagree about it because she doesn't want there to be a clear answer either. She wrote it that way to "psychologically manipulate" the audience-I don't mean this is a malevolent way but in a way that shows how fraught human psychology, and emotions are. The fight scene was provoked by the husband so that he could mine for book material without her knowledge. He knew what buttons to push to provoke a passionate response. So, who is the narc and liar in that situation? She took a few lines from his book and built a whole unrelated story around it with his permission-not exactly stealing-artists do this all the time-there are countless works of fiction that do this. Neither person is perfect, marriages are complicated, everything is up for interpretation and projection. We know where you stand.