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A waste of 90 minutes of my life

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

This film is the most arrogant self righteuos film I have ever seen. From start to finish this film is able to constantly out do itself as it will constantly disappoint you. The film offers no answers no resolutions and will make you question how a director can actually make a film this stupid. By halfway you will want to rip your eyes from your socket snd burn your laptop. Please i beg you DO NOT watch this film from the stupid falling to the dumb plot this film is pure trash

If you can avoid the trailer, I think it will be more enjoyable if you go in cold. If you've seen the trailer it is misleading. It's not about an epidemic at an all-girl school with a conspiracy to cover up. At it's core I think The Falling is about two things a generational gap between the females in this movie and their inability to communicate. The older women are from a generation where they endure their hardships (in this movie very tragic ones), don't speak of it and try to move on with life the best they can. The new generation are in a more liberated time. The world went through a lot of social change in the 60's and 70's. So they are more open about their problems and share sometimes too much which is embodied by Abbie. But the girls in this movie are girls. They are very intelligent, they think they know it all but are still confused about things. Even though the younger generation are living in a more liberating time there are still dealing with repression but they have to navigate this new world alone. When they try to reach out to the adults they are unable/unwillingly to help. Not out of maliciousness I think but just don't know how. The women in this movie are not the dumb adults that are always in movies. They see what is going on with these kids but are failing them. When they do intervene it comes to late. One quote that embodies this is by the headmistress. She tells a teacher how the students feel so misunderstood but have no clue about how it's like to be a middle age women.As for the mystery of the movie. Why are these girls fainting. The movie gives two answers with proof for both. In my opinion it's a mixture of both. For critiques of the movie. At times the fainting of the girls seemed way to choreographed and not natural. Some of music is ill placed. Some shots are confusing, they are meant to show us things but lack context or go too fast. I found the movie enjoyable but I wanted more out of it.

The plot of this film revolves incidents of pupils fainting at an all girls school in the 1960s. Sounds interesting but this film is executed poorly.The most obvious error in the film is the cinematography. The images look good but I imagine this is due to the resolution the film was shot in and colour grading. If I were watching a YouTube video I would be very impressed. The reason I am not is because the lighting is poor (at least for cinema). While everything is crystal clear, there is no depth to the lighting, the light looks the same throughout the shot. A good cinematographer would create dark and light areas within the same frame. After seeing this film I watched the director's short film The Madness of the Dance which is much more visually interesting so I looked up the cinematographer and discovered it was Christopher Doyle (that explains why it looked good). That film used different colours of light (red and blue) within the same frame and had areas of shadow which gave the shots depth.The film is also boring. Some may say this is because I am male and didn't go to a boys/girls only school but I feel that is a cheap excuse, I have enjoyed many films where I have never had the same experiences as the main character. Very little of anything of interest happens throughout the movie. It is later revealed the cause of the faintings is mass hysteria. I would have preferred a more supernatural explanation, still would have been ridiculous but at least it would be more interesting.Sorry Game of Thrones fans but Maisie Williams is bad at acting. Let's be honest she was only cast because of the marketing appeal being in GoT brought.A thing in the movie that was annoying was that the main character had sexual feeling for her own brother and the brother did not object. Seriously he does nothing to stop her advance, he even goes along with it. They even have sex only to be stopped by their mother. The relationship between the main character and the mother was meh. The revelation that the main character was conceived through rape which is why the mother is too scared to leave the house and is dismissive of the main character was alright but it is done so poorly. It made sense but the scene had no punch. Had it shown both the characters having mixed feelings about each other throughout the film, it would be more impactful. All the daughter does is whine and the mother and insult her and the mother, like I said, mainly dismisses her. There is no real development between the two.Speaking of lack of character development a male teacher kisses a female teacher in the movie, she rejects him. But their relationship is not shown before or after this scene. It doesn't even have any effect on the narrative or main character so there was no point in the scene even being in the movie. I gave this film a 3/10 overall because it's still a competent movie (for the most part), editing is fine, costume is fine and music choice is fine.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning In the late 60s, at an all girls school with a strict stance on discipline, straight laced Lydia (Maisie Williams) and her promiscuous mate Abbie (Florence Pugh) are going through the trials and tribulations of school life. When Abbie falls pregnant, and then tragedy strikes, a mysterious fainting spell strikes the girls at the school and then to others, leading to a mysterious ritual in the forest.This unusual offering appeared out of nowhere in a few theatres last April, an out the way offering with a mysterious allure about it. Smaller scale, independent films often get less publicity, which in some cases can make them all the more of a treat. A lot of opinion seems to be divided, but for me, Carol Morley's blend of horror and drama is a promise that doesn't pay off, with an impressive, quiet sense of atmosphere about it, but an incomprehensible story that's impossible to get in to.Something about it's eerie nature keeps you with it to the end, but with such a flimsily established story and characters you end up unable to really feel for, the end result is not as great as hoped. One thinks Morley was too obsessed with reaching for an art house flair, at the expense of making something that had any chance of translating to an audience. **