The Fall
by Tarsem Singh
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Actor: Lee PaceDirector: Tarsem Singh
Brand: UNTARU,CATINCA
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of The Fall
DVD Review: good
Summary: 5 Stars
the movie was amazing, and the only thing better was how fast the received the movie!DVD Review: Aesthetically pleasing and endearing
Summary: 5 Stars
This film became an absolute must for my film collection after watching it once with my family. The child actor, Catinca Untaru, is the centerpiece of this film. Her lovely Romanian accent, her naive mischievousness, and her chemistry with the other characters endear any viewer to the story. In addition to her presence, the film's scenes are breathtakingly beautiful, apparently without any special effects, and the richness of the colors and landscapes alone would make this film worth watching. However, the storyline is also intriguing, as are the nuances within the storyline that, while sometimes slightly disturbing (e.g. violence, tribal rituals, depression), hold the viewer's interest. I would recommend this film wholeheartedly, as would my entire family, because it inspires creativity with its exploration of the imagination.DVD Review: Beautiful Imagery
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was beautifully done. The story wasn't fantastic, but it's well worth your time.DVD Review: The Fall
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent storyline and beautiful cinematography! A very creative flick that I had the good luck to bump into. Although I have never heard much of a stir made about it, it is fabulous and memorable. So memorable, that I had to buy it in Blue Ray!
DVD Review: Does not quite deliver on its potential
Summary: 3 Stars
Tarsem Singh's fertile visual imagination is in full effect here, given free reign due to his having funded the movie himself, and the sights and sounds that result are truly amazing. Unfortunately, the fundamentally disjointed story never quite gels in a satisfying way. After all the mystery of the film's many exotic locations, bold visuals and over-the-top romanticism, the final turns of the story are underwhelmingly mundane and predictable, and ultimately leave the whole affair devoid of any purpose. The concept of the film is interesting, but I think the filmmakers lingered too much in the "real world" attempting to clarify connections between real and imagined characters, when the better choice would've been to gradually plunge deeper and deeper into the fantasy, allowing for the sort of jaw-dropper denouement this movie deserves. While the interaction between Roy and Alexandria is very charming and believable, their relationship never seems to acquire any real weight, and their tearful reconciliation in the climactic scene just doesn't hit home the way it should, leaving all the enthralling fantasy to seem rather trite in retrospect (perhaps that is the point, but it sure makes for a disappointing movie).
Overall a decent movie and worth watching for the visual style alone, but it's a shame the story wasn't put together more powerfully...this should've been a real mind-blower of a movie. As it is it's like a slightly more light-hearted Pan's Labyrinth - which, interestingly, I thought suffered from the same lack of balance between drama, fantasy, and an ultimate point to it all.
Description of The Fall
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 9-SEP-2008
Media Type: DVD
Roger Ebert proclaimed it "one of the most extraordinary films I've ever seen," and there's no denying the avalanche of wild images in The Fall: grand castles, desert vistas, elephants swimming in the open ocean. Commercial and music-video director Tarsem has piled these visions into an elaborate remake of an obscure Bulgarian film, Yo Ho Ho, which is anchored in (but by no means limited to) a quiet hospital during the silent-movie era. A stuntman (Lee Pace) is laid up with leg injuries, and an eye-popping black-and-white prologue (utterly mystifying while we're watching it) tells us how he got here. Depressed over his disability and a recent lost love, he plans suicide, but is temporarily derailed by the inquisitive friendship of a little girl (Catinca Untaru), to whom he tells wild stories of adventurers and princesses. We see these stories, which is where the dizzying visuals come in. This movie probably won't inspire many lukewarm responses: either you'll fall madly for this paean to storytelling magic, or you'll be suspicious about the parade of pretty pictures, which tend to have a magazine-layout sheen. The movie certainly has more soul than Tarsem's yucky previous feature, The Cell, and the scenes between Pace and Untaru (who scores an 11 on the cuteness scale) are genuinely charming. The director actually put a considerable amount of his own money into the production (which shot in over 20 countries), and whether you buy his vision or not, he put his money on the screen. --Robert Horton
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