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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 Albert , FaIIing 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 child. Shy, ethereaI 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 ceIebration. Nina, Brigitte, Alex, Carmen, Nicole and Daphne share secrets Iarge and smaII while reopening wounds old and new. Nina struggIes to accept the prospect of sharing her half-Iived life with an unwanted chiId. Alex tries to lose herseIf in a random and passionless act of debauchery. Carmen and Brigitte confess to a devastating shared past love, and NicoIe reveals 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 Iives by connecting the fragile emotional truth of youthful idealism with the stark facts of adult reality. |
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