The Falling

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Audience Member Slow, mostly predictable, and about as emotionally moving as a Zoloft prescription. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/05/23 Full Review Hugo S "The Falling" has an eerie and unique story: a girls' school in the late 60's is the stage of an epidemic hysterical fainting. The strange phenomenon is a metaphor for the contagious sexual liberation that starts with the death of an emancipated girl. The movie is a melodrama with some subtle elements of the supernatural. Beautifully weird! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/19/23 Full Review David M For a film that centers on what may or may not be an outbreak of hysteria, this is surprisingly low-key - and all the more powerful for its restraint. Maisie Williams' lead performance is nothing short of remarkable. Given that this is a film about said hysteria amongst a group of girls, I wondered if the naming of Florence Pugh's character as Abigail was a nod to The Crucible. Similarly to that great play, the words of girls or young women are doubted and second-guessed; by adults - especially men; it's also very specifically a film about the specific, often unvoiced, experience of teenage girls learning what their bodies are and how they relate to those bodies with their minds, emotions and sexuality. A mention also for the excellent music, which together with director Carol Morley's deft uses of flashed images throughout, weaves an unsettling air of uncertainty all through the film, an uncertainty which is never fully resolved. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member i watched this movie it was little too boring for me also i didn't know what was going on. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I can't say much without spoiling the story but the last couple of minutes of the feature are an amazing and truly deep emotional payback. Well done! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member I really liked this film. the nostalgic British setting was brought through very well in props, costume set and filming. I thought some of the acting was good, though it definitely had room for improvement. (quite a bit of it felt a little over-acty-ish) There's something so undeniably frustrating about this film - and I think that's part of why I like it. The thwarted young girls, who are completely unheard and ignored by adults in the uptight, keep-your-emotions-to-yourself '60s were portrayed well through (what I think was) the metaphor of fainting. the girls, overcome by a swelling grief and a feeling of palpable connection to each other and their dead, fall. The ignorance of the older generation is then conveyed by adults literally stepping over their fallen bodies, as if bored or uninterested in their expression of grief. Dismissive, in a word. And the complex, nuanced and largely disturbing relationships between characters evokes the confusing emotions and inescapably huge feelings which are felt by exploring teenagers and young adults. the choice to have Abi on screen for so little time is a point of analytical conflict for me: on one hand, I find it interesting that her brief time on screen triggered such a cataclysm of events, and her absence only makes her more unattainable and mysteriously magnetic; on the other hand, I just found it frustrating not to get to know her well enough, so that we might have been able to empathise more with our protagonist who misses her so much and mourns her untimely death. towards the end of the film, I did start to feel like I was having déjà vu: I don't think they needed to have three whole scenes of Lyla disrupting assembly, in fact, I think the fewer of these scenes, the more impactful that last scene of all the girls convulsing and spacing out would have been. Many parts of the film were hard to watch (and if you've seen it, you'll know exactly what I mean) but this is done intentionally, to make it chilling and uncomfortable, as viewers are forced to watch some horrible mistakes be made by people who are still learning how to cope with growing up, with grief, a lack of stability and support and some very weird and upsetting family shit. the second half of the film was admittedly rather wooly in terms of plot, but the characters pulled it together a bit, with big secrets coming out along with a tsunami of suppressed emotions. Overall, 'the Falling' feels like one of those films that don't feel objectively good or bad, but my gut instinct says that I enjoyed it, so there. (also i really really REALLY love the cast and i think they perfect for their roles) Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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