The Fall
Movie Review
"The Fall"
Review by Eric D. Snider
Grade: B+
Rating: R
Released: Friday, May 9, 2008
Directed by:
Cast:
When Tarsem Singh's "The Cell" was released in 2000, I spent most of my review talking about the way it looked, from the cinematography to the costume design. Eight years later, Tarsem (he's just going by his first name now) has finally made his second film, and it looks like my review of it might be structured the same way.
And why shouldn't it be? The films have a lot in common, both set primarily inside someone's mind, and the new one is only two letters away: It's called "The Fall." (Suggested future titles for Tarsem movies: "The Bull," "The Mill," and "The Doll.") "The Fall" is much lighter fare than the unsettling "Cell" was, though not without its dark moments, and if its imaginative story isn't exactly brilliant, I'm not concerned. I would be content to merely look at the film all day.
[To read the rest of the review, please visit Cinematical.]
Grade: B+
Rated R, for moderate violence -- an absolute travesty, as I could list 500 PG-13 films with as much violence as this one, plus profanity and sex to boot, of which "The Fall" has none.
1 hr., 57 min.
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June 5, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Loved this movie! The humor was so subtle, and the visuals were stunning. I loved it when the little girl nibbled on the edge of her cast, entranced by the story she was hearing. What a little sweetie.
July 6, 2008 at 6:57 pm
What a treat - a film that plays out in real time as well as in the mind of a little girl (and what a delicious, innocent and talented performer she is) from the epic story told by her handsome but troubled fellow hospital patient. Set in the early years of motion picutes it captures a wonderful sense of place and time while wandering all over the globe in scenic splendor. Not magic realism exactly but close. And like Wizard of Oz, the characters in the mind are those of the real world too - but that truth spools out slowly until the very end.