Baftas 2024: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ wins ‘Best Original Screenplay’
Justine Triet and Arthur Harari have won the Bafta Award for ‘Best Original Screenplay’, which was awarded to the pair for penning Anatomy of a Fall. The creative duo were up against stiff competition, with the category also nominating movies such as Barbie, Past Lives and The Holdovers.
Anatomy of a Fall features Sandra Hüller as Sandra Voyter, a woman set on proving that she was not involved in the death of her husband. Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner and Jehnny Beth also star.
Accepting her award on stage, co-writer and director Justine Triet bizarrely exclaimed: “The last time I was in London, a woman said to me, ‘Thank you because after I saw your movie, I called my ex and I told him to go and see it to understand why I dumped him'”.
Co-writer Arthur Harari then bizarrely added, “Recently, I’ve found myself near a window, insulating an attic in a house,” joking that he feared the fiction of the film would come to life, before exclaiming, “I’m quite happy tonight”.
In a two-and-a-half-star review of Anatomy of a Fall, Far Out was critical of the film, writing, “It’s enough for a project to tick all the boxes that should make it work; what it’s actually bringing to the table is purely inconsequential.”
The review adds, “That’s not to say that there aren’t moments that grab the viewer because there definitely are scenes that linger for a while. […] But these isolated segments aren’t enough to sustain the spirit of a thoroughly soulless thought experiment masquerading as a full-length feature.”
Triet and Harari join names such as Martin McDonagh, Emerald Fennell and Paul Thomas Anderson as recent winners of the esteemed prize.
Is ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ based on a true story?
No, Anatomy of a Fall is a work of fiction conceived by partners and frequent collaborators Triet and Harari. Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Triet revealed that she was inspired by true crime media when constructing the story. She said: “I read these kinds of true-crime stories on an almost daily basis and watch, again almost on a daily basis, these trial movies and series. So they were an inspiration.”
However, she added: “You can see it as a whodunit, but I think it’s mainly a film about a couple’s relationship. What was interesting for me was to use this pretext of the murder trial to dissect the relationship of a couple who have a child together but do not have a common language. For me, that was the center of the story, the trial was a side story.”
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