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Title : The Falling
Category: Movies

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Rating : 2.6
Buyer Review : 10









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Highly reccomended
An expertly done human drama with terrific ambiance and artistry set in an all girls public school in England in 1969. Introspective and intense Lydia (Maisie Williams- best known for her role in Game of Thrones) is best friends with popular and outgoing Abbie (Florence Pugh) and they inscribe each other name on an oak tree vowing eternal sisterhood.
After Abbie falls pregnant as a result of a liaison with Lydia's horrible sex obsessed brother Kenneth (Joe Cole) who dabbles in the occult, Lydia fears for her relationship with Abbie. Add to the mix some nasty narrow minded teachers determined to force their Victorian morality on the girls (this at the time of the sexual revolution- and opening of the 60s) - Great Saachi plays the austere Miss Mantell, and Lydia's reclusive mother (Maxine Peak) this is a coming of age movie, a psychological thriller , a supernatural thriller all in one.
A tragedy at the school leads to the girls having collective fainting spells- is it mass...
Entertaining film that could have been better
Set in the 1960s at an all girl school we meet Lydia (Masie Williams) who has a best friend in Abbie. They have it all as friends and a love of nature centring around an old oak tree. They have a mixed bag of teachers who seem to adhere to Victorian values and modesty principles - that is despite the burgeoning `summer of love'.

Then tragedy happens and Masie starts to have fainting fits - very soon the phenomenon spreads and she seems to be at the centre of it. Throw in a mum with issues (Maxine Peake) and a bit of the Occult, forbidden sex and deep rooted paranoia and you have the makings of a rather good story.

Maxine Peake is billed starring here, but she is not really on screen for a great period of time; Greta Scacchi as the dowdy Miss Mantel is though pure excellence in a performance dripping with understatement. I have seen comparisons to `Picnic at Hanging Rock' and even the events around Salem and the subsequent Witch trials. However, I think such...
This was a wonderfully atmospheric and haunting film with a breakout performance by ...

This was a wonderfully atmospheric and haunting film with a breakout performance by Florence Pugh. If you enjoy beautifully shot and evocative film making with a twist of magic realism, The Falling will more than keep you riveted to the screen. Obviously, this a polarizing movie but it's worth taking a chance on. Take the leap.