We open the tantalizing Anatomy of a Fall with a frustrated Sandra Voyter — As she sits in her chalet, she attempts to answer an eager journalist’s questions.

But her husband toils overhead on a long-overdue home renovation, with an instrumental of 50 Cent hit ‘P.I.M.P’ volting through loud-speakers, leaving no room for escape in the home.

A frustrated Sandra has to excuse herself and ask to reschedule the interview, but within five minutes, tragedy strikes. Her blind son Daniel has found his father Samuel dead outside in the snow.

What transpires is a search for the truth, as we’re giving many plausible explanations for the fall — Whether it was an accident, a suicide or a murder isn’t clear, but Sandra is in the cross-hairs of justice.

This is a film about morality and the uneasy fact even those we love the most can be capable of horrific things. As Sandra and Daniel need to relive the event over and over — through the trial and re-enactments — a trust of each other even begins to erode.

Co-writer and director Justine Triet creates a movie that will leave you breathless, and this slow-burn crackles until you can barely stand to be close to the flame anymore.

Sandra Hüller is extraordinary, in a role that should earn her a Lead Actress Oscar nomination. Winner of the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, it’s an emotional triumph of a film.

4/5 Stars