Today I gotta highly recommend that you seek out The Fall, a film dated 2006 that was finally trickled out in May. It’s a little hard to find, but if you’re in East Tennessee, check it out at Downtown West in Knoxville. It’s worth the effort.
How to describe this movie? The Fall is The Princess Bride plus Pan’s Labyrinth plus The Science of Sleep - which is to say that it is a (storybook) story that bounces from reality to fantasy and back again in a little girl’s mind. The reality part takes place in a hospital in 1915 where a badly damaged movie stuntman tells a story to Alexandria, a young immigrant girl played by Catinca Untaru, the BEST child actress you have ever seen. The fantasy part is a swashbuckling silent-movie-style adventure played out in vivid color in Alexandria’s imagination. Director Tarsem Singh is known for elaborate costumes and exotic locales, and this movie has more than your eyes can handle.
Now, a warning: The Fall is rated R. Not for sex or swearing, but for the human pain it explores and especially for some harsh but not quite realistic violence.
But though it deals with some serious themes, it is not ultimately a serious or dark movie. The Fall is thoughtful and lovely, far better, I’m sure, than any CGI blockbuster out there. Go find it.
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