Falling

Most-Anticipated Sundance Film Festival 2020

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Original title: Falling
Year: 2020
Running time: 112 min.
Country: Canada
Director: Viggo Mortensen
Screenwriter: Viggo Mortensen
Music: Viggo Mortensen
Cinematography: Marcel Zyskind
Cast: Lance Henriksen, Viggo Mortensen, Terry Chen, Sverrir Gudnason, Hannah Gross, Laura Linney, David Cronenberg, Bo Martyn, Ella Jonas Farlinger, Etienne Kellici, Carina Battrick, William Healy, Bracken Burns, Taylor Belle Puterman, Gabby Velis, Grady McKenzie, Piers Bijvoet
Producer: Co-production Canada-United Kingdom; Perceval Pictures / Baral Waley Productions / Scythia Films / Zephyr Films. Distributed by GEM Entertainment
Genre: Drama | Old Age. Family Relationships
Synopsis / Plot: When 80-year-old independent farmer Willis travels to Los Angeles for an indefinite stay with son John and his family, two very different worlds collide. Mentally declining, Willis’ abrasiveness is both caustic and funny, bringing old wounds from the past and years of mutual mistrust to the surface.

Premiere: Sundance Film Festival 2020 (closing night).

Critics' reviews

"As intelligent and sensitive a directing debut as you'd expect, and a highlight of Henriksen's career"

John DeFore: The Hollywood Reporter
"More deeply felt than your typical American debut (...) Mortensen’s patience, his way with actors and his trust in our intelligence are not unlike late-career Eastwood"

Peter Debruge: Variety
"Mortensen has made a film that feels deeply personal but also totally fake (...) [A] repetitive, grueling melodrama."

Brian Tallerico: rogerebert.com
"Finely drawn character drama, as you might expect from much of Mortensen’s acting career"

Steve Pond: The Wrap
"'Falling' is not for the faint of heart. It’s a prime example of how reproachable vulgarities and slurs can be used in art as means to an end that harbors significance and truth"

Luke Hicks: Film School Rejects

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