sensecrosser
It's clear that Tarsem Singh is very passionate about this story, and the actors and actresses did an awesome job of telling it through his vision. It's a touching story, delivered with beautiful scenery and cinematography. This is the kind of movie I can watch over and over again, picking up different details each time. Highly recommended!!
Martin Bradley
Visually Tarsem Singh's "The Fall" is one of the most beautiful films ever made. The credit sequence, shot in slow motion and in black and white, is breathtaking and when it goes into full colour it is never less than gorgeous. It's a kind of Arabian Nights phantasia as Lee Pace's hospital patient, (he's an injured stuntman with suicidal tendencies), tells a series of tall tales to a another patient, a little girl with a broken arm, (an enchanting Catinca Untaru), The problem is the stories are too 'adult' for children, as are the sequences set in the hospital, and too inconsequential for an adult audience. However, imagery this beautiful is rare, (Singh shot the film in a number of world-wide locations), and if there isn't much here to tax the brain, the eye is constantly dazzled. Unfortuantely, in this case, that really isn't enough.
xoen-78617
This is the world we live in.
So sad, so sad...amazing movie, but, it is not easy to consume.
Tanay Chaudhari
An injured stuntman (Lee Pace, "Guardians of the Galaxy") and a young orange-picker girl (the uber talented - Catinca Untaru) - both "fell and fractured" - strike a chance friendship in their hospital. Roy begins telling her a story of romance, bandits, adventure with Charles Darwin, a Pyrotechnic, an Indian Warrior, a Free-Slave as their peers. The epic-plot flushed out of Roy's own remorse and heartbreak, ironically set in the magnificent palaces of India, though, it is with little Alexandria's potent and pure imagination we all see a world beyond the helpless shortsightedness. To have fallen is human, but to have risen must feel divine.It's surprising to have found "hope" in the most unlikely of places; but, that becomes "soul enriching" to have attained so from a child's vision.A moving, heartfelt account of fantasy-drama, which couldn't have been summarised any better by Alain de Botton... 'The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.' ... so, indeed.Outstanding!