This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Fantastically absurd, as you’d expect from Lanthimos. Hilarious and visually stunning, it’s a high 4* but not quite a 4.5* for me.
SPOILER
Took a while to get past the fact that she’s essentially a hypersexual child in a woman’s body, which was very disturbing when dwelled upon.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A film about an episode from Native American is a rare thing, which is why this one leaves such a bitter taste in the mouth.
The cinematography is gorgeous, of course, and the drama never dips – it is a Scorsese flick, after all. But its aesthetic and structuring also feels overly familiar, which added to the acridity. Because, rather than a film about Native Americans, Killers of the Flower Moon is about the white men who pillaged a Native American community. It ultimately feels like grave robbery itself, with Scorsese raiding Osage history and remaking it in his image.
*Spoilers henceforth*
As I was leaving the cinema, I overheard several other viewers discussing whether or not they thought she did it, and I found myself wondering if we’d been watching the same film.
While it certainly sets off with all the hallmarks of one, ultimately Anatomy of a Fall is not a whodunnit, but a study of the French judicial process and of the familial impacts of a murder trial on those involved.
