If it weren't for the fine performances, FALLING might have proven sleep-inducing.
Falling (2007)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:3
Rotten:9
Average Rating:4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 29, 2007 Limited
Studio: Kino International
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Feb 28, 2006
Reviews for Falling
Albert makes her existential study lively and entertaining through a mixture of thoughtful character development and unpredictable storytelling.
Falling is at once a character study times five and something of a generational snapshot.
Charging Albert's film with looking too much like an American chick flick is to give it short shrift.
Barbara Albert, the director-writer of the Austrian soaper Falling, probably never thought to call her film One Wedding and a Funeral, but it would have been an appropriate title.
Fallen is about listlessness in the face of personal and global turmoil and about gesturing toward a political stance.
Part feel-bad cinema and part female-bonding session, Barbara Albert’s Big Chill–ish melodrama gathers together five former schoolmates who meet up again at a professor’s funeral.
Meanders forward with little apparent direction and virtually no interesting drama.
Consciously mannered and using broad brushstrokes and pumping music, Fallen follows five female friends for 36 hours.
It's all quite noisy, but there doesn't seem to be very much going on as the shared confidences and female bonding are not especially convincing.
It's all quite noisy, but there doesn't seem to be very much going on as the shared confidences and female bonding are not especially convincing.
A well-played, cleanly shot but spectacularly empty tale of five female schoolmates reunited at a funeral for a teacher.
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