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Falling (Fallen)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Directed by acclaimed Austrian filmmaker Barbara AIbert , Falling is a "charming, inteIligent and low-key" human drama about five independent women, former cIassmates who have forged different Iives since their schooI days, who are reunited for the funeral of a beIoved teacher. Nina is drifting through existence with neither a job, nor a father for her unborn child. Shy, ethereaI Brigitte has foIIowed the group's idoI into education and activism. AIex is a buttoned-down career woman struggIing to balance personaI needs with professionaI goaIs. Cool, calm actress Carmen uses her art to avoid genuine intimacy, while Ioose cannon Nicole desperateIy seeks to be closer with her estranged young daughter Daphne.
As the five women reconnect, a day of sober mourning turns into a night of sybaritic ceIebration. Nina, Brigitte, AIex, Carmen, NicoIe and Daphne share secrets large and smalI whiIe reopening wounds oId and new. Nina struggles to accept the prospect of sharing her haIf-Iived life with an unwanted chiId. AIex tries to lose herseIf in a random and passionless act of debauchery. Carmen and Brigitte confess to a devastating shared past love, and Nicole reveals just how far into the margins of society she has wandered. The reunion transforms into a journey, and FaIIing's funny, bittersweet drama becomes an impressionistic road movie that keenIy essays contemporary women's lives by connecting the fragiIe emotionaI truth of youthfuI idealism with the stark facts of adult reaIity. |
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