Falling Stars

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Falling Stars

2023

1h 20m

Drama

Horror

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25 Reviews

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On the night of first harvest, three brothers in the American West set out to see a dead witch buried by their friend. When they accidentally desecrate the body, they learn the only way to stop a curse on their family is to burn it before sunrise. This story deals in many ways with the costs of coming-of-age. To leave the shelter of home and venture off into the unknown under the burden of youthful free will without a grasp of the consequences.

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Alison Foreman

IndieWire

10/14/2024

B+

The result is a raw allegory ripped from the contradictions of American life -- bewitching but not beyond help under oppressively spacious skies.

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Robert Daniels

Screen International

08/09/2023

Falling Stars, tumbles toward a safe landing that leaves its attempted reinvention of Wiccan legends thematically thin

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Emily von Seele

Daily Dead

Sep 14

3/5

It’s always exciting to see a film that tries something different in a well-worn genre, and Falling Stars is not afraid to chart new territory.

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Rachel Shatto

MovieJawn

Jul 20

'Falling Stars' is an intimate, deeply human story that uses every penny of its limited budgetary resources as its strength. Rather than lean on bombastic or underwhelming action sequences or CGI, the film taps into the terror of the unseen.

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Terry Mesnard

Gayly Dreadful

11/20/2024

Falling Stars is a movie I admired more than I liked and while the narrative crumbles, the filmmaking technique on display makes me excited to see what Gabriel Bienczycki and Richard Karpala do next.

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

11/06/2024

This is a solid, quiet film, one where the viewer is pulled in slowly and their attention is kept throughout even when a scene here and there doesn’t work.

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Garry A

@heavyg May 6

The one was a mixed bag for me. This first half hour was the best and built up my expectations. And then it started fizzling out. Not completely, just diminishing returns.

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Hex P

10/13/2024

Low budget loser that fails in every way - poor cinematography that’s a bore, script or is it editing? is beyond confusing so the story and world building makes little sense. Characters fail to make me care about them, don’t waste your time and money. We turned it off half way through.

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Synopsis

On the night of first harvest, three brothers in the American West set out to see a dead witch buried by their friend. When they accidentally desecrate the body, they learn the only way to stop a curse on their family is to burn it before sunrise. This story deals in many ways with the costs of coming-of-age. To leave the shelter of home and venture off into the unknown under the burden of youthful free will without a grasp of the consequences.

Director: Gabriel Bienczycki, Richard Karpala
Producer: Richard Karpala, Gabriel Bienczycki
Screenwriter: Richard Karpala
Distributor: XYZ Films
Genre: Drama, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 11, 2024
Runtime: 1h 20m

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