UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

FountainPen Brilliant storyline which could have resulted in a powerful, positive movie, but this production falls flat, with lots of ups and downs, unhappily. The film is plagued by a few nasty, loud songs apparently by below-par folk "artistes"; these annoying puerile songs should have been deleted or replaced with something appropriate. and appealing Most reviews rate this flick very low. I noticed two that gave a 10/10 rating!! Hmmm. When I checked (am always very suspicious about 10/10 ratings for movies that average below 6/10), I found that both these "reviewers" have rated only ONE movie on IMDb, yes, this film. These are their headings: "Let's not confuse uncomfortable with bad." by SusanGinny and "Loved it!" by jax-37159. Hmmm!About 35 minutes in, the film pretty much dies for a while, as things come virtually to a dead stop, as though the entire cast and crew had decided to take a break! There's a scene in which two characters do not speak for about a minute, just sit holding hands (the boy fondling the girl)! What sort of direction is THAT? Significance? A few minutes later, there's another irritating song by a silly, drippy singer: what am I missing? What was the meaning? Lost on me. A couple of minutes later the song or another pops up briefly, for no reason. What's going on? 48 minutes in another song with loud solo guitar cuts in "The moon is like a boat, my love, with lemon peel afloat, my love..." HUH? This ditty is sung by the character Abbie, but what the heck does it mean? Incidentally, the superbly beautiful Florence Pugh, born January 1996, plays Abbie; I predict a very bright future for this actress. Anyway, WHO decided on all the music? Good grief! Just a minute later yet ANOTHER irritating loud loud song assaults our ears "I've been waiting for a long time" sung by a lad in a high-pitched voice. This is too damn much. Horrible. By now I just feel like turning off the DVD player and reading a book. As the film continues, there's more hideous, inappropriate, raucous music! Really testing my patience ~ the "music" in this film is a huge put-off. I'll set aside consideration of the strange event happening in this film, at a girls' school, as others have dealt with that and you can read it online... no, it's nothing to do with the music! I will say that the occurrence of the event is repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated.... BORING! We got the idea after the 6th time, thank you!!I'll rate this movie 3/10, cannot go higher, all considered. In other hands, I believe this story could be re-scripted, the oddball music deleted, and made into a film that would rate at least 6/10. #

James Hitchcock "The Falling" is set in an English girls' school in 1969. This is a day school rather than a boarding school, but it nevertheless has something of the strict public-school ethos about it. Abigail "Abbie" Mortimer and Lydia "Lamb" Lamont, two pupils at the school, are best friends. Indeed, it is implied that they may be more than just good friends, although whether they are actually having a lesbian relationship is never made explicit. In any case, Abbie cannot be exclusively lesbian as we learn that she has become pregnant by a boyfriend. And then the film starts to get very weird.Abbie dies suddenly, with no real explanation given beyond the fact that she was pregnant. (Pregnancy is not, of course, a terminal illness, but writer/director Carol Morley seems to have been under the impression that it is). Starting with Lydia, girls at the school, and one of the younger teachers, begin to suffer from unexplained fainting spells, and although investigations are carried out, no physical, medical or psychological explanation is ever produced. The headmistress, however, seems to believe the whole thing is, for some obscure reason, Lydia's fault and expels her from the school. Lydia responds to her expulsion by beginning an incestuous relationship with her brother Kenneth, but the reason why she reacts in this way remains as mysterious as everything else in this film.Marlow's first mistake is to kill Abbie off so early on, as Florence Pugh makes her about the only interesting character in the film. Thereafter Lydia moves to the centre of the action, but Maisie Williams never manages to hold our interest in the same way. Unusually for a British period film there is little real sense of the period in which it is set. About the only sixties touch is a brief reference to a stylophone, a curious electronic musical instrument popular during the decade. There is no sense that this was the era of the Beatles, flower-power and free love; we are rather left with the idea that it was a time of a suffocating sexual and emotional repression. The language sounds too modern; nobody in the sixties would have used the expression "She was, like…." To mean "And then she said…..". Even the name "Abbie" sounds more 2010s than 1960s. (The few youthful Abigails about fifty years ago generally shortened their name, if at all, to "Gail" rather than "Abbie").The film was made (and it shows) on a very low budget, only £750,000, petty cash by Hollywood standards or even by the standards of more ambitious British film-makers, but even so managed to make a financial loss, earning less than two-thirds of that sum. Despite its lack of box-office appeal, it was praised by some critics, who compared it to a number of earlier movies, including Peter Weir's "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now". There are, admittedly, certain correspondences between "The Falling" and those two films. All three have a general air of mystery about them, and "The Falling" shares with Weir's film the theme of intense, possibly sexual, friendships between pupils at a girls' school. With Roeg's film it shares a pervading presence of water and the death of a character by drowning.All that goes to show, however, is that two films can resemble one another superficially and yet vary enormously in character and in quality. "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and "Don't Look Now" are masterpieces, two of the greatest films of the seventies, films whose air of mystery is a virtue and which present us with characters we can identify with and care about. Both Weir and Roeg are masters in the art of composing a shot and of pacing the action so as to produce an enthralling movie, and both had some very gifted actors at their disposal."The Falling" is very far indeed from being a masterpiece. Morley is unable to achieve the visual beauty which is a hallmark of Weir and Roeg's films. Where their films were permeated with a haunting sense of mystery, hers is simply baffling as well as hysterical and overwrought in tone. With the partial exception of Pugh, none of the actors stand out. I doubt if anyone will ever class "The Falling" as one of the greatest films of the current decade. 3/10

paulg-67221 The plot of this film revolves incidents of pupils fainting at an all girls school in the 1960s. Sounds interesting but this film is executed poorly.The most obvious error in the film is the cinematography. The images look good but I imagine this is due to the resolution the film was shot in and colour grading. If I were watching a YouTube video I would be very impressed. The reason I am not is because the lighting is poor (at least for cinema). While everything is crystal clear, there is no depth to the lighting, the light looks the same throughout the shot. A good cinematographer would create dark and light areas within the same frame. After seeing this film I watched the director's short film The Madness of the Dance which is much more visually interesting so I looked up the cinematographer and discovered it was Christopher Doyle (that explains why it looked good). That film used different colours of light (red and blue) within the same frame and had areas of shadow which gave the shots depth.The film is also boring. Some may say this is because I am male and didn't go to a boys/girls only school but I feel that is a cheap excuse, I have enjoyed many films where I have never had the same experiences as the main character. Very little of anything of interest happens throughout the movie. It is later revealed the cause of the faintings is mass hysteria. I would have preferred a more supernatural explanation, still would have been ridiculous but at least it would be more interesting.Sorry Game of Thrones fans but Maisie Williams is bad at acting. Let's be honest she was only cast because of the marketing appeal being in GoT brought.A thing in the movie that was annoying was that the main character had sexual feeling for her own brother and the brother did not object. Seriously he does nothing to stop her advance, he even goes along with it. They even have sex only to be stopped by their mother. The relationship between the main character and the mother was meh. The revelation that the main character was conceived through rape which is why the mother is too scared to leave the house and is dismissive of the main character was alright but it is done so poorly. It made sense but the scene had no punch. Had it shown both the characters having mixed feelings about each other throughout the film, it would be more impactful. All the daughter does is whine and the mother and insult her and the mother, like I said, mainly dismisses her. There is no real development between the two.Speaking of lack of character development a male teacher kisses a female teacher in the movie, she rejects him. But their relationship is not shown before or after this scene. It doesn't even have any effect on the narrative or main character so there was no point in the scene even being in the movie. I gave this film a 3/10 overall because it's still a competent movie (for the most part), editing is fine, costume is fine and music choice is fine.

Tweekums Set in a small all-girl school in 1969, this film is centred on pupil Lydia Lamont who is virtually inseparable from her best friend Abbie Mortimer. Lydia is not too impressed when Abbie announces that she has started having sex. It soon emerges that Abbie is pregnant and the girls discuss what she should do but then Abbie collapses and dies. Not long after that Lydia faints at school; she isn't the last girl to faint; soon most of the pupils are collapsing as well as a young member of staff. The school authorities have no idea what to do; are the girls all faking it? Is it a case of mass hysteria? Or is there a medical cause? While this is going on Lydia starts to explore her own sexuality and ultimately learns why her mother hasn't left the house for sixteen years.After hearing some very positive reviews I was a little surprised to see the film's low score and poor reviews here… having seen the film I was less surprised. Personally I thought it was really good but can understand why others wouldn't. If you want an explanation for what is going on you will be disappointed. Writer/director Carol Morley does a great job creating a disturbing atmosphere; nothing really scary happens but there is a general sense of unease and a feeling that something could happen. Sixteen year old Maisie Williams does a brilliant job as the troubled Lydia; it helps that she is the same age as her character. The rest of the cast are impressive too; notably Maxine Peake as Lydia's cold, almost indifferent mother. Overall I thought this was something special, one of those films one keeps thinking about after it has finished, so would certainly recommend it to anybody looking for something rather different; it certainly won't be for everybody though.