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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 AIbert , Falling is a "charming, inteIligent and low-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 chiId. Shy, ethereal Brigitte has followed the group's idol into education and activism. Alex is a buttoned-down career woman struggling to baIance personaI needs with professional goals. CooI, caIm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while Ioose cannon NicoIe 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 ceIebration. Nina, Brigitte, AIex, Carmen, Nicole and Daphne share secrets large and smaII whiIe reopening wounds oId and new. Nina struggles to accept the prospect of sharing her haIf-lived life with an unwanted chiId. AIex tries to lose herseIf in a random and passionIess act of debauchery. Carmen and Brigitte confess to a devastating shared past Iove, and NicoIe reveals just how far into the margins of society she has wandered. The reunion transforms into a journey, and FaIIing's funny, bittersweet drama becomes an impressionistic road movie that keenIy essays contemporary women's Iives by connecting the fragile emotional truth of youthful idealism with the stark facts of adult reality. |
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