My initial cynicism was steadily broken down, completely undone by a five-year-old Romanian actress named Catinca Untaru.
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05/09/08
The Fall (2008)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:58
Rotten:39
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: More visually elaborate than the fragmented story can sometimes support, The Fall walks the line between labor of love and filmmaker self-indulgence.
Theatrical Release:May 9, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $2,099,067
Synopsis: Award-winning music video, commercial and film director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) creates a moving and seamless blending of mundane life in a 1915 Los Angeles hospital with a visually sumptuous... [More]
Reviews for The Fall
The narrative is nothing more than a framework for scenes of unforgettable visual art..it still comes across as the cinema's best exploration of how stories are made in many a year.
06/02/08
This whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic.
05/09/08
Top CriticTarsem has found a home for his endlessly unique visions, and (wouldn't you know?) it's beyond artifice and stealing toward art.
10/18/08
It's the most glorious, wonderful mess put onscreen since Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
05/08/08
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04/23/09
A paean to the art of storytelling as it existed before mass-produced visual media replaced the spoken word as the primary creative medium.
05/09/08
If Matthew Barney and Alejandro Jodorowsky were in change of filming a Gay Pride parade, it would be similar to what Fall has to offer visually...As a living, breathing creation, it's dead on arrival.
05/21/08
One of the most distinctive-looking films ever to play in a theater, a dark fantasy overflowing with mesmerizingly weird images at every turn.
05/30/08
A must-watch for lovers of the strange and unusual, this visually ravishing oddball drama has sequences of genuine beauty and charm - even if it won't be to everyone's taste.
10/03/08
Gorgeous, inert and dull.
05/30/08
The girl and the hospital patients and staff also turn up in his improvised adventure, extravagantly garbed by costume designer Eiko Ishioka.
12/17/08
Tarsem's The Fall is a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms. Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself.
05/30/08
Top CriticSome filmmakers can imagine everything and select nothing, and while it's clear as a bell Tarsem has more talent than almost any 10 directors put together, in The Fall he's basically showing off with every new wondrous image.
05/29/08
Top CriticSome of the set pieces are ravishing, more often they're ravishingly clunky.
05/09/08
The Fall is wholly beguiling, an utterly transportive piece of filmmaking as dazzling in its visual audacity as it is in its spartan simplicity.
05/09/08
The scope of Tarsem's imagination and vision and the delightful pairing of Pace and Untaru creates an eclectic fantasy tale unlike anything we've since The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
05/09/08
May not do much for its director's resume, but it certainly must have filled out his passport.
06/17/08
Visually sumptuous but marred by a fragmented tale.
04/29/08
Tarsem filmed his epic adventure in well over a dozen countries, generating plenty of Frequent Flyer Miles for himself but offering nothing to audiences hoping for more than just visual extravagance.
05/28/08
Latest News for The Fall
December 08, 2008:
Roger Ebert Ranks 2008's 20 Best Films 
December isn't even halfway over yet, and many of us have already had our fill of year-end lists -- but Roger Ebert's list of the 20 best films of 2008 is one worth making an... More...
October 06, 2008:
Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 2
Its otherworldly story split critics down the middle, but none can argue with the power of its imagery. Continuing our exclusive look at the stunning visuals of Tarsem's The... More...
October 03, 2008:
Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 1
Its otherworldly story split critics down the middle, but none can argue with the power of its imagery. Opening in the UK this week, Tarsem's The Fall is one of the year's most... More...
October 03, 2008:
UK Critics Consensus: How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Does Just That; Whilst Brideshead Revisited Is Resisted
In the UK cinemas this week we have two literary adaptations with Simon Pegg as an irksome hack in How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited... More...
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