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Falling (Fallen)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Directed by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Barbara Albert , Falling is a "charming, intelligent and Iow-key" human drama about five independent women, former classmates who have forged different lives since their schooI 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 child. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has foIlowed the group's idoI into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggIing to balance personaI needs with professionaI goaIs. 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, AIex, Carmen, NicoIe and Daphne share secrets large and small whiIe reopening wounds oId and new. Nina struggles to accept the prospect of sharing her haIf-lived Iife with an unwanted child. AIex 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 keenIy 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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