The Falling [2014]


Director	Carol Morley
Selected Cast	Maxine Peake as Eileen Lamont
	Maisie Williams as Lydia Lamont
	Florence Pugh as Abbie Mortimer
	Anna Burnett as Susan
	Greta Scacchi as Miss Edith Mantel

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Magic Marmalade 24th May 2017		Rated 6/10 Aiming to be a kind of Picnic At Hanging Rock for our times... ...with all the whoosy, surreal atmosphere of that odd, enigmatic masterpiece, this doesn't really achieve that lofty ambition. Like Picnic, it centres around a strange happening occurring to a group schoolgirls, whereby they begin to act oddly, dance about in a trance-state, then "fall" on the floor. >your joke here< :) It's all "metaphor for sexual awakening" and so-on, which the whole film is based around. Unfortunately, rather than being mysterious and enigmatic, it comes off as crudely done, melodramatic, and a bit embarrassing. Their "falling" has these girls waving their arms about and trancing away in a manner more like the first meeting of the local Am-dram society than being a serious production, and it undermines the whole concept. Not the actors fault though, as they all play it through with a straight face, and give as good performance as they can, given what they've been asked to do (They probably thought it would turn out better than it did, themselves)... Maisie Williams is good, and I understand she's quite popular at the moment in that Lord Of The Rings knock-off, and Maxine Peake is always brilliant in whatever she plays (probably the best actor in Britain today). But I came away feeling decidedly underwhelmed by it. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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