May not do much for its director's resume, but it certainly must have filled out his passport.
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06/17/08
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The Fall (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 73 Fresh: 39 Rotten:34 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Consensus:
More visually elaborate than the fragmented story can sometimes support, The Fall walks the line between labor of love and filmmaker self-indulgence.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Synopsis: Award-winning music video, commercial and film director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) creates a moving and seamless blending of mundane life in a 1915 Los Angeles hospital with a visually sumptuous fantasy world of exotic bandits, evil tyrants, dream-like palaces and breathtaking landscapes.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Lee Pace, Justine Waddell, Daniel Caltagirone, Leo Bill
Director: Tarsem
Reviews
As fantastic as the 'story' sequences in The Fall are, we are grounded by the fact that characters we believe in have created them, and they have happened right there in front of our eyes.
06/09/08
Rarely does a film employ the frame so fully and serve up images of such breathtaking scale as in The Fall.
06/08/08
After four years of shooting and two years of sitting on the shelf, THE FALL is finally released. And it's worth the wait!
06/04/08
It's such an exotic, fanciful story, so loony and imaginative and outre ... that the crazier it gets, the more intrigued I am.
06/04/08
In a world of blockbusters and super-hero movies, one "small" film about five mystical heroes can be more satisfying than all of the others put together.
06/03/08
Once you've been away from 'The Fall' for 24 hours or so, you reflect on its sheer beauty.
06/03/08
The narrative is nothing more than a framework for scenes of unforgettable visual art..it still comes across as the cinema's best exploration of how stories are made in many a year.
06/02/08
It's like a Terry Gilliam fantasy directed by Zhang Yimou and reimagined by a child...
06/01/08
What seems to be a light fantasy tale about an adult spinning a yarn for a child transcends, and instead becomes a story that is itself primarily about storytelling.
06/01/08
It's visually sumptuous and intriguing but its lack of tonal consistency makes it often incoherent and emotionally inaccessible.
05/31/08
One of the most distinctive-looking films ever to play in a theater, a dark fantasy overflowing with mesmerizingly weird images at every turn.
05/30/08
An offbeat fairy tale for grownups that squeaks by on its visual panache and some major male eye candy.
05/30/08
It looks spectacular, but a book of The Fall photographs would be just as compelling as the movie.
05/30/08
Pace and Untaru generate an unforced chemistry that makes them pleasant company for a couple of hours, but they almost work against the movie's need to establish narrative tension. They appear to be having such a good time that Roy's self-destructive impu
05/30/08
An achingly beautiful movie and a triumph of location scouting, with more cosmopolitan spectacle than the past three Indiana Jones and James Bond movies combined.
05/30/08
It doesn't make a bit of sense. And after a while, even pretty images become boring when there's nobody in them we care about.
05/30/08
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