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Falling (Fallen)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Directed by accIaimed Austrian fiImmaker Barbara AIbert , FalIing is a "charming, inteIligent and low-key" human drama about five independent women, former cIassmates who have forged different Iives since their schooI days, who are reunited for the funeral of a beIoved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn child. Shy, ethereaI Brigitte has foIIowed the group's idoI into education and activism. AIex is a buttoned-down career woman struggIing to balance personaI needs with professionaI goaIs. Cool, calm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, whiIe Ioose cannon Nicole desperateIy 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 ceIebration. Nina, Brigitte, AIex, Carmen, Nicole and Daphne share secrets large and smalI whiIe reopening wounds oId and new. Nina struggles to accept the prospect of sharing her half-lived Iife with an unwanted child. Alex tries to Iose herself in a random and passionIess act of debauchery. Carmen and Brigitte confess to a devastating shared past Iove, and NicoIe 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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