“A nice surprise” seen from the United States

“Anatomy of a Fall”, with its nomination in five categories at the 2024 Oscars, created an event in France, it made less headlines across the Atlantic while still causing a reaction.

In the United States, there was more discussion ofOppenheimernominated Tuesday January 23, in 13 categories for the 2024 Oscars. But the five nominations ofAnatomy of a fall, particularly in the “best achievement” category, have far from gone unnoticed. Erik Davis from the Fandango site commented on the nominations Tuesday on the PIX11 channel: “Justine Triet for Anatomy of a fall, it’s a big awards season surprise. A lot of people are discovering this film, a very good film.”

The specialized site Deadline quickly published an interview with Justine Triet and even in writing, we feel her freshness. Her funny speech during the Golden Globes, where she won two awards on January 7, was very popular. She says she cried when she heard the nomination of her editor, Laurent Sénéchal, and his presence in the directing category means a lot to her. She is the first French director nominated and the 8^e director at all, in 96 years of Oscar history. “It’s crazyshe told Deadline. I’m not 20 years old. I am 45. I have lived in this world for a long time, before MeToo and I have seen the evolution of the situation for women”.

Anatomy of a fall is also analyzed from an overall perspective, namely the international Oscars with three feature films in a foreign language in the best film category. Perhaps a sign of the internationalization of the 11,000 voters. And evil tongues wonder if Justine Triet or the Englishman Jonathan Glazer of the Area of ​​interest did not take “the place” of Greta Gerwig, the director of barbiein the production category.

“Anatomy of a Fall”, the most viewed French film in the United States in 2023

Being an art house film, a foreign one at that, the audience ofAnatomy of a fall is limited. But it still brought in $3,952,237 (€3.7 million) as of January 21. This is both small on the scale of Hollywood and impressive for a film of this profile. It should also be noted that he collects awards: the Gotham, the Golden Globes and those of the many critics’ associations in the United States.

And then, the people who see Anatomy of a fall often seem marked by the song we hear at the beginning of the film, PIMP by rapper 50 Cent, covered by a German group. It’s ironic because at the Golden Globes, Justine Triet confided that she didn’t know if people would go see a film as radical as hers, without music.