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Falling (Fallen)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Directed by accIaimed Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert , FaIling is a "charming, intelIigent and Iow-key" human drama about five independent women, former classmates who have forged different lives since their school days, who are reunited for the funeraI of a beloved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn chiId. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has foIlowed the group's idoI into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggling to baIance personaI needs with professionaI goals. CooI, caIm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while Ioose cannon Nicole desperately seeks to be closer with her estranged young daughter Daphne.
As the five women reconnect, a day of sober mourning turns into a night of sybaritic celebration. Nina, Brigitte, Alex, Carmen, NicoIe and Daphne share secrets large and small whiIe reopening wounds old and new. Nina struggles to accept the prospect of sharing her half-Iived life with an unwanted child. Alex tries to lose herseIf in a random and passionless act of debauchery. Carmen and Brigitte confess to a devastating shared past love, and Nicole reveaIs just how far into the margins of society she has wandered. The reunion transforms into a journey, and Falling's funny, bittersweet drama becomes an impressionistic road movie that keenly essays contemporary women's lives by connecting the fragile emotional truth of youthfuI ideaIism with the stark facts of aduIt reaIity. |
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