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Falling

Play trailer Poster for Falling Released Jun 29, 2007 1h 28m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Former classmates (Nina Proll, Birgit Minichmayr, Ursula Strauss) reunite at a teacher's funeral.

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Manohla Dargis New York Times Falling is at once a character study times five and something of a generational snapshot. Rated: 3.5/5 Jul 2, 2007 Full Review V.A. Musetto New York Post 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. Rated: 2/4 Jun 29, 2007 Full Review David Fear Time Out 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. Rated: 2/6 Oct 30, 2006 Full Review Ted Murphy Murphy's Movie Reviews If it weren't for the fine performances, FALLING might have proven sleep-inducing. Rated: C- Jul 14, 2007 Full Review Eric Monder Film Journal International Albert makes her existential study lively and entertaining through a mixture of thoughtful character development and unpredictable storytelling. Jul 3, 2007 Full Review Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Charging Albert's film with looking too much like an American chick flick is to give it short shrift. Rated: 3/4 Jun 29, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member A difficult movie to understand, as the action moves from a funeral, to a roadside fair, to a wedding reception, to a bar, and back to somebody's house, without any sense of purpose to the meanderings. Meanwhile the viewer is left to untangle the various relationships and understand what these five women have in common. Eventually, the lights do begin to come on, but by that time one has forgotten what the questions were. That these five women share a common bond is the one sure thing. Figuring out what forged that bond is the challenge, should you decide to accept it. Mildly entertaining, but no deep philosophical answers to be found here. These women are friends, at different points in their lives, moving in different directions, and will probably not be able to find much common ground for very much longer. But for this one night, they are united in a quest to rekindle what they had in school. Whether that was high school or college is never revealed. Given some of the revelations, one hopes it was college. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Bittersweet. Reminded me a little of The Big Chill. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member not Barbara Alberts best work Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Entertaining but the plot was a little bit predictable and the parts that weren't were a little outlandish. Also, these women were a group of friends in high school and they still have enough in common to reunite? Really? All of them? Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member Dissapointing. This movie could have been good but fell short on the entertainment factor. The premise was full of potential but the execution was quite lacking. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member GO STUPID GO DUMB DUMB GO STUPID GO DUMB DUMB Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Barbara Albert

Director

Nina Proll

Nina

Birgit Minichmayr

Brigitte

Ursula Strauss

Alex

Kathrin Resetarits

Carmen

Gabriela Hegedus

Nicole

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Movie Info

Synopsis Former classmates (Nina Proll, Birgit Minichmayr, Ursula Strauss) reunite at a teacher's funeral.
Director
Barbara Albert
Producer
Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Barbara Albert
Screenwriter
Barbara Albert
Distributor
Kino International
Production Co
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) [at], ZDF/Arte, Coop99 Filmproduktion
Genre
Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 29, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 8, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$509
Runtime
1h 28m
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