In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
Rated 4.3 / 5 from 3 logs on Katalog
Pan’s Labyrinth meets Princess Bride meets Jojo’s Bizzare Adventures Part 3 meets A Little Princess, but it’s completely its own thing, with charismatic af Lee Pace and one of the most endearing child performances. Shots that make your jaw drop (filmed on-location over 18 countries), gorgeous costumes by one and only Eiko Ishioka (her costumes in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, are some of my favourite costume designs ever), The Fall is what I would call an intimate epic, and a love letter to storytelling, filmmaking (respect the stunts!) and those brief and unlikely, yet life-changing friendships. Filmed in 2006, how did I only find out about it almost 20 years later? Maybe I lived under a rock but maybe because it was pretty much unavailable until 2024, which we can supposedly blame on Harvey Weinstein who apparently sabotaged the initial distribution after walking out of the screening after 15 minutes because he didn’t understand the plot. Well, now we have it and in he’s in prison, so…
So charming, a little clumsy, but after reading about the production, it's completely understandable. One of those fantastical tales interwoven with a somewhat cruel reality movies, à la #[movie:1265:Bridge to Terabithia (2007)] and #[movie:1417:Pan's Labyrinth (2006)] but this one has Lee Pace and therefore that is enough said The story was a bit all over the place, I didn't get some things immediately, and the ending montage came a little out of nowhere (for me) but overall really fun. Learning it made $3M from a budget of $30M that Tarsem funded mostly himself is wild to me.
So surreal yet so real, beautiful !
