The Fall (Blu-ray) R
Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 9, 2008
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru & Justine Waddell | |
Performer: | Emil Hostina, Robin Smith, Julian Bleach, Daniel Caltagirone, Marcus Wesley, Leo Bill, Sean Gilder & Jeetu Verma | |
Directed by | Tarsem Singh | |
Edited by | Robert Duffy | |
Screenwriting by | Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis & Tarsem Singh | |
Composition by | Krishna Levy | |
Produced by | Tarsem Singh | |
Director of Photography: | Colin Watkinson | |
Executive Production by | Ajit Singh & Tommy Turtle |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
The film may look a treat in a static kind of way but the whole is a piece of turgid pictorialism that ends up unbearably dull.
London Evening Standard
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Singh's film is sometimes confusing and fractured, but strong performances, unusual visuals and the story's resonance make The Fall worth taking.
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The Oklahoman
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The Fall is Tarsem's imagination unleashed, brilliantly original and gloriously imperfect, and the world is a better place for it.
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From the Front Row
...a movie that not only expected me to pay attention, it assumed that I could.
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Film.com
Rating: 3/5 --
The visuals that illustrate the fairytale fantasy are extraordinary. But the film has none of the menacing brilliance of Pan's Labyrinth. The result is a triumph of style over talent.
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Times (UK)
The girl and the hospital patients and staff also turn up in his improvised adventure, extravagantly garbed by costume designer Eiko Ishioka.
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Chicago Reader
3 stars out of 4 -- The surrealistic visuals in this ambitious film are unlike anything you're likely to see or have seen....It's the masterful cinematography and otherworldly locations that leave a lasting impression...
USA Today
Product Description:
After creating the visually impressive film THE CELL in 2000, director Tarsem Singh dropped his last name to become simply Tarsem. His follow up, THE FALL, is just as beautiful as his previous work and features a stamp of approval from David Fincher and Spike Jonze. Like those celebrated directors, Tarsem got his start in the highly visual medium of music videos, and THE FALL is appropriately one of the most striking films to hit the screen in recent memory. Set in Los Angeles in 1915, the story revolves around a five-year-old girl (Catinca Untaru) named Alexandria, who wanders around a hospital after breaking her arm. There she meets bedridden Roy (Lee Pace of PUSHING DAISIES), a Hollywood stuntman who is paralyzed after an ill-fated attempt to impress a woman. Roy beguiles Alexandria with a tale that mirrors his own failed romance but his imagination takes it to new levels. People in the hospital appear in the story à la THE WIZARD OF OZ, but it's a surreal, fantastic epic that enchants Alexandria and convinces her to bring morphine pills to Roy so he can commit suicide.
Based on the Bulgarian film YO HO HO, THE FALL is an excellent example of a triumph of style over substance. The plot is interesting and the acting is solid--particularly the work from first-time Romanian actress Untaru--but it's hard to pay attention to any of that when Colin Watkinson's cinematography and Ged Clarke's production design are so stunning. Though Tarsem is working in a vein similar to Guillermo del Toro and Terry Gilliam, THE FALL is a uniquely gorgeous work that will impress anyone who values beauty in film.
Based on the Bulgarian film YO HO HO, THE FALL is an excellent example of a triumph of style over substance. The plot is interesting and the acting is solid--particularly the work from first-time Romanian actress Untaru--but it's hard to pay attention to any of that when Colin Watkinson's cinematography and Ged Clarke's production design are so stunning. Though Tarsem is working in a vein similar to Guillermo del Toro and Terry Gilliam, THE FALL is a uniquely gorgeous work that will impress anyone who values beauty in film.