The falling is a 2014 british mystery drama film written and directed by carol morley. Rating is available when the video has been rented. After the heartbreaking true story dreams of a life 2011, british writerdirector carol morley shows startling versatility and ambition with this jawdroppin. Wellacted and overall unsettling, the falling delivers thoughtprovoking thrills and suggests a bright future for writerdirector carol morley. The falling synopsis at the centre of the epidemic are intense and clever lydia lamont maisie williams and admired and rebellious abbie mortimer florence pugh, both 16 years old. Maisie williams won the rising star award at londons evening standard film awards 2016.
August 7th, 2015 not yet rated 1 hr 42 min plot summary. Actors director director genre genre synopsis synopsis release date. The falling 2015 stream and watch online moviefone. The film premiered at the bfi london film festival on 11 october 2014 and was released theatrically on 24 april 2015 in the uk. As a massive asteroid heads through our solar system, its gravitational forces pulls earth in its wake. Maisie williams and florence pugh in the falling 2014 maisie williams at. The film also stars greta scacchi, monica dolan, maxine peake, and mathew baynton. From the slow fades, lingering looks and free associative edits that open the falling, we. But when they stumble into a secret government installation, they. A mesmerising psychological drama, this film explores a mysterious fainting outbreak in 1969 at an allgirls school. After extricating herself from a destructive marriage and resettling in yorkshire, the only thing british novelist daisy langrish penelope wilton wants is some quiet time to write.
Every time the picture opens a fascinating door, youre held back from going through by a naff filmmaking choice or a rote story move. Such complications account for the films intensity of feeling, which hails from another era entirely. Carol morley explains how her long fascination with mass psychogenic illness led to her film the falling, the story of a fainting. Having gone to an allgirls school where fainting got you out of gym, seeing carol morleys the falling about an extreme version of this set in 1969 was. In 1969, lydia and abbie are best friends at an english girls school. Carol morley joins the ranks of britains best filmmakers with this enigmatic tale of apparent mass hysteria at a girls school.
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