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The Falls

The Falls

1980
Comedy, Sci-fi
3h 15m
The world has been affected by a mysterious occurrance known as the Violent Unknown Event or VUE. It has caused immortality and disability. Sufferers have learned new and peculiar languages. Some firmly believe in the responsibility of birds. In this 3-hour long film, 92 biographies are presented of sufferers whose surnames begin with the letters FALL... (imdb)
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The Falls

1980
Comedy, Sci-fi
3h 15m
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Rated 18 Nov 2010
60
50th
Completely bonkers idea. I was actually reasonably entertained for over 3 hours by the 92-ish biographies (one shouldn't underestimate the upbeat music between each nor the fact that you're able to count down to the end). Structuring a film by the alphabet seems like a pointless experiment but it's exactly the exercise of turning the segments, filled with curious "factual" details, into an apocalyptic narrative that makes the film. The humour, of the English schoolboy variety, was hit-and-miss.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
82
73rd
One of the most original films I've ever seen, stuffed to the gills with inventive little bits of business. Definitely not a movie for everyone: it's tough to get through (I doubt I'd ever attempt it in one sitting), has no "plot" and no emotional content, and the gimmicky-ness of it will certainly put some people off. But if you're looking for something fascinating, funny, ingenious, multi-layered, bizarre, and strikingly unique, it hits the spot.
Rated 16 Apr 2007
50
38th
Valiant experimental filmmaking, to say the least. A peculiar load of nonsense but Greenaway really sticks to his guns. You don't get a lot from it, and I think it definitely could have been better even by its own nonsensical terms... But it's an interesting cinematic curiousity.
Rated 29 Aug 2014
88
86th
Madly ambitious mockumentary, a cinematic dictionary of victims of the Violent Unexplained Event, whose names begin with "Fall" and who become obsessed with birds--and in some cases, try to become birds themselves. 195 minutes of this can be trying, but it's stunningly imaginative, a testament to Peter Greenaway's painstaking creation of a cinematic universe (spreading across his entire canon), and often very funny, in a very dry way. Gorgeous cinematography; Michael Nyman's score is brilliant.
Rated 27 Sep 2010
95
99th
guilty pleasure, somehow. i love how greenaway ignores the whole world and its rules for three hours, talking about birds and names. that is optimism, people!
Rated 17 Apr 2015
75
61st
Hard to watch, hard to rate.
Rated 19 Sep 2012
85
85th
My favorite Greenaway by a long shot, but, I'm not a fan of his. But it is a funny and disciplined formalist joke, taken to admirably ridiculous extremes.
Rated 11 Apr 2020
91
96th
Owing a lot to the Monty Python's absurd storytelling, we can see how Peter builds up his grand narrative, and instead of seeing cinema as a teleological means, he uses it as a medium, a tool, as it always were, and does, well, whatever he damn pleases.
Rated 16 Nov 2020
90
91st
So apparently I never rated this, but you know those VHS tapes you grew up with where there is a mass of stuff your parents recorded for you that is a smorgasbord of media they liked and wanted to keep? This is the filmic version of that.
Rated 20 Nov 2020
94
93rd
The Falls estreava há 40 anos no London Film Festival. Eu gosto de assistir filme sem saber absolutamente nada sobre ele, no máximo o título e o diretor e foi isso que fiz com esse e a primeira coisa que me veio à mente foi WTF! A segunda que isso parecia um documentário dirigido pelo Monty Python. A terceira que era do nivel de genialidade do Bolaño em A Literatura Nazista na América, mas tão cansativo quanto. DVDRip no MakingOff.

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