Film Award Cologne - Justine Triet

Justine Triet became only the third woman to win the Palme d’Or in Cannes in May for her feature film ANATOMY OF A FALL. A film that can be understood as a reflection on #metoo, on public accusations, suspicions and prosecutions – and yet is too particular to ride any thematic wave. In Triet’s fourth feature film it is also not a man who is accused, but a woman named Sandra. She is played by Sandra Hüller, with whom Triet filmed for the second time and who perfectly embodies Triet’s complex view of gender roles and patterns.
In Triet’s previous film SIBYL (2019) Hüller played a film director whose reality slips away, in ANATOMY OF A FALL she is a German writer whose husband falls from the balcony of a chalet – murder, suicide or misfortune is the question that is eventually tried in court. But much more than a clear answer, Triet is interested, as in all her films, in what happens behind the surface, in the view that the court and the public have of Sandra, a not always sympathetic woman with secrets. Triet’s films do not necessarily provide answers but ask questions, even uncomfortable ones, and therein lies their special quality.

The talk lasts approx. 45 minutes.

Free entrance with ticket!