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'Anatomy of a Fall' Set for China Theatrical Release
At a time when prestige cinema releases from the West have grown rare, the film will provide an interesting test of Chinese filmgoers' appetites.
The acclaimed courtroom thriller, which won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or in 2023 and the Oscar for best original screenplay last week, has secured a nationwide theatrical release date in China on March 29. The setup would seem to point to a “did she or didn’t she?” mystery thriller, akin to Basic Instinct or HBO’s The Staircase, but Triet is less interested in a whodunit than in interrogating the legal system for its use of narrative fictions — when there are no facts, the prosecution spins fantasies about motives — and the conservative, often sexist assumptions that form the basis of those stories. The company first caught the international film world’s attention in 2018, when it marketed and distributed Nadine Labaki’s small-budget art house drama Capernaum to a stunning $54 million total in China.
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