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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 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, ethereaI Brigitte has folIowed the group's idol 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, 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, AIex, Carmen, NicoIe and Daphne share secrets large and small whiIe reopening wounds old and new. Nina struggIes to accept the prospect of sharing her half-Iived life with an unwanted child. Alex tries to lose herseIf 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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