Justine Treat’s lauded courtroom drama is exactly everything you’ve heard. And, Neon has come in clutch with an audio description track, allowing a rare international title that is accessible to American blind audiences. So, you too can live out the drama of this mostly in English title.

Sandra Hueller plays an actress who is living with her husband, their son, and their dog. Seriously, the dog has been included in the awards circuit. I think the dog from this film has more awards than Ava Duvernay does for directing Origin. Pretty much at the top, we discover that the husband has died, tragically after being run over by the bulls in Pampalona.It’s a fall. Of course, the film is titled Anatomy Of A Fall. He fell. Or did he?

And that’s where the mystery comes in because not everything lines up, and the only witness is their son, who is visually impaired. Milo Machado does a really nice job with this role, especially toward the end of the film when it becomes his turn on the stand. Most of this is just like tearing apart a marriage step by step, and airing out all the dirty details no one would ever want the world to know.

What is so great about Treat’s directorial choice is that she never hands you the answer. Perhaps a little spoilery, but there isn’t some smoking gun twist that makes her definitively guilty or innocent. Instead, Treat is much more interested in the journey of getting to a verdict, and all the details that come out in the wash as the prosecution tears every aspect of her life to pieces. it’s a tour de force performance from Hueller, and the rest of the cast is supporting her in all the best ways.

My little nit picky things just involve some of those pesky details. For example, we are shown Hueller early on in her house, and the husband is supposedly upstairs doing creative shit. This guy is listening to Biggie’s PIMP on the level of repeat that would make me concerned a lot quicker than Hueller. She mentions getting a headache at one point in the movie, and it’s because her husband apparently has a playlist of one song. that would drive anyone insane.

I also never actually liked the husband. His entire performance is in flashbacks, but I never related to him, nor cared about him, so having a film where I’m supposed to care about the victim just didn’t work in that way. I was enamored with many other elements, like the smart script, but we needed a deeper playlist, and something that made us see the good in the husband.

I’d be shocked if this missed out at the Oscars. The audio description was nice for the parts not in English, but surprisingly about half the film is in English. The audio description narrator was terrific at speaking French, when he needed to read something in French, like in the opening titles. I’m currently predicting this in Picture, Actress, Screenplay, and Editing. Four nominations ain’t bad for a film not chosen by its own country. We shall see.

Final Grade: A-