Fall (2006)

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Movie
Original title Falling
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 85 minutes
Age rating JMK 12
Rod
Director Barbara Albert
script Barbara Albert
production Antonin Svoboda , Martin Gschlacht , Barbara Albert ( Coop 99 )
camera Bernhard Keller
cut Karina Ressler
occupation

Fallen is a film directed by Barbara Albert and produced by the film production company Coop 99 . He tells of two days that a group of women spend together. The plot is structured by photos that are backed by songs performed by female voices. The film tells the story calmly, the focus is on the conversations between the women and their relationship with one another.

The director said: "It's about waking up in reality after the old visions have not worked out ..."

action

After 14 years, five friends meet again for a funeral in their old hometown. They spend the next two days together, talking about the past, suggesting how it has fared them in the meantime, and constantly creating changing images of themselves and others. The women have reached very different positions in life: Brigitte, a politically committed teacher, Carmen, a successful actress, Alex, a fun-loving supervisor in an employment office, Nina, a pregnant unemployed person and Nicole, a prisoner released from prison, who her daughter Daphne has with him.

"We are free" - that used to be the motto of the friends.

At the funeral after the funeral of their former physics teacher, they first sniff each other carefully. You end up at the wedding party of an old friend in a marquee on an idyllic meadow. There Nina causes a scene of jealousy for the bride, after which everyone goes to a country disco, where further complications arise. As the hour approaches and after drinking some alcohol, women become more open and direct. At dawn they return to the meadow, have breakfast in a fast food shop and rest in the apartment of one of the women.

The action forms the background against which an image of the women and their relationship with one another emerges in conversations.

The film was shot in Vienna and Horn .

Reviews

"The formally strict, sometimes meditative film turns the relative perplexity of its protagonists into a creative staging principle and thus achieves part of its touching effect."

“'Fallen' is a strangely unfinished film about a strangely unfinished generation. All the flashbacks and frozen images, all the flashes of memory and self-exposure of the heroines that are negligently scattered dramaturgically into the plot appear in the end as impulses of an intimate hope: Is there perhaps still something going on with friendship, with solidarity and with saving the world? "

"The main problem with Fallen, however, is that its characters, in their perhaps intended mediocrity, are too dull and banal to arouse interest and advance the plot."

- critic.de

“Five women in their early thirties meet at the funeral of a teacher with whom at least two of them also had sex: this is a situation, but not a story. And so actresses like Birgit Minichmeyer, Nina Proll and Kathrin Resetarits hang out and smoke and drink at a village festival and in the disco, without anything coming out of it than external views of a very general female sadness, which is perked up by a few sentences critical of capitalism. 'Falling' is not at all unappealing, but unfortunately absolutely irrelevant. "

- Spiegel Online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Age rating for traps . Youth Media Commission .
  2. Alex and Sandra in the country disco
  3. Traps. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. Christian Buß : Women on hold . Spiegel Online , January 17, 2008; Retrieved July 13, 2011
  5. Birte Lüdeking: Fallen Critic.de; Retrieved July 13, 2011
  6. Wolfgang Höbel: A baby redeems the world . Spiegel Online , September 3, 2006; Retrieved July 13, 2011