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The Falling

On 24 Apr 15, Screening followed by Q&A with director Carol Morley

We can't get enough of Carol Morley's ethereal coming-of-age story about mass psychogenic illness in a sleepy Oxfordshire town.

By CW Contributor on 20/4/2015

Newcomer Florence Pugh and Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams star in Carol Morley's The Falling
Newcomer Florence Pugh and Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams star in Carol Morley's The Falling
The Falling The Falling Caroline Halstead
The Falling from director Carol Morley was our film pick of the week. ★★★★★

Carol Morley's The Falling explores a mysterious fainting epidemic in a rural British girls' school in 1969. Part black comedy, part surreal psychodrama, this strikingly English, understated drama will hold you to the edge of your seat as it teeters on the brink of the supernatural.


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The Falling: film plot

The Falling: film plot

Sixteen-year old best friends Lydia and Abbie are on the cusp of adulthood. As they struggle to come to grips with the changes they are going through, and to address their increasingly complex emotions, a fainting and twitching outbreak is simultaneously spreading thoughout the school. As the adults attempt to figure out whether this is pretense, mass psychogenic illness or something more sinister, their grip on reality falters and the atmosphere in the school becomes disturbingly tense: and Lydia (played by Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams) comes to discover the alarming truth behind her own identity.

Director Carol Morley

Hauntingly beautiful and stunningly shot, The Falling features a punchy prog-rock soundtrack from Tracey Thorn (Everything but the Girl) and cinematography as luxurious as a pre-Raphaelite painting from Agnès Godard (Beau Travail). The imaginative script from Carol Morley – director of documentary Dreams of a Life – shows her first attempt at directing a drama and brings poetry to the banality of daily life in 1960s England.

The Falling: film cast

A knife-edge insight into desire, sexuality and innocence The Falling constantly wavers between the supernatural and the frighteningly human. Also starring newcomer Florence Pugh and the award-winning Maxine Peake, The Falling is a brilliantly sharp and entrancing exploration into loneliness, adolescence and identity.


You can watch The Falling online on iTunes.




What The Falling
Where Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 5DY | MAP
Nearest tube Leicester Square (underground)
When On 24 Apr 15, Screening followed by Q&A with director Carol Morley
Price £15
Website Click here to book via the Curzon website.

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    The Falling: film reviews

    GUARDIAN

    'As murky, wet and luxurious as the water in which Millais drowned Ophelia... this entire deeply strange drama feels like the film version of some giant lost concept album that the late Syd Barrett might have been working on over 20 years in his bedroom...This is terrific film-making – enough to bring a rush of blood to the head.'

    Peter Bradshaw

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    'A peculiarly English current of terror — agitated, eccentric and politely unspoken — courses through “The Falling,” an imperfect but alluring study of psychological contagion that marks an auspicious advance in the field of narrative filmmaking.'

    Guy Lodge


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