SummaryJohn (Viggo Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Monica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. His father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis’s mind is declining, so John ... Read More
Directed By:Viggo Mortensen
Written By:Viggo Mortensen
Falling
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Generally Favorable
63
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
63
46% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
42% Mixed
10 Reviews
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13% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Feb 11, 2021
100
Powerful, persuasive and insightful, Falling is a sensitive and beautifully composed film that marks the formidable directing debut of the wonderful actor Viggo Mortensen.
Feb 1, 2020
85
Falling is a finely drawn character drama, as you might expect from much of Mortensen’s acting career, and a film that pays attention to small details that bring these people to life.
Feb 1, 2020
80
Falling is unpretentious and perfectly accessible to mainstream audiences. Mortensen’s patience, his way with actors and his trust in our intelligence are not unlike late-career Eastwood, which isn’t a bad place to be so early in one’s directing career.
Dec 6, 2020
60
The directorial debut of Viggo Mortensen, which he also wrote and stars in, is an empathetic but gruelling account of a father-son relationship.
Feb 8, 2021
50
The well-intentioned drama never makes the case why a decent man would stay close to his detestable father.
Sep 16, 2020
50
Despite great direction by Mortensen, who also delivers a strong performance alongside Henriksen and (briefly) Linney, Falling is a repetitive and exhausting exercise that never gets around to unpacking why the audience should care about its ailing patriarch character. It’s too long and too one note for too little pay-off.
Sep 17, 2020
20
Falling fails hard, unable to generate sympathy for its protagonists and relying entirely on the charms of its writer/director to sustain interest. It’s a shame, as Mortensen’s a fine performer with a strong legacy, but the film feels like the worst kind of passion project, one that forgot to bring the audience in for what amounts to a film more masturbatory than moving.
User score
Mixed or Average
6.0
40% Positive
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Dec 13, 2021
6
(Mauro Lanari)
A remake of "The Father" influenced by a sequel to "Green Book": is the non-linear structure due to the point of view of paternal dementia or the confusion in the childhood memories of Viggo on his directorial debut? He has forced the character of the couple of protagonists to the point of a caricatural parody of the polarized political, ideological and moral souls of the contemporary United States: an intermediate agonic phase between two mutual inability to take care of a dying person, at the beginning and at the end of the film.
Production Company:
- Perceval Pictures
- Scythia Films
- Zephyr Films
- Achille Productions
- Baral Waley Productions
- HanWay Films
- Ingenious Media
- Ontario Creates
- The Government of Canada
- The Government of the United Kingdom
Release Date:Feb 5, 2021
Duration:1 h 52 m
Rating:R
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Awards
CinEuphoria Awards
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 4 Nominations
International Film Festival & Awards Macao
• 2 Nominations
