Falling film viggo mortensen

Part of the story takes place in the s and '70s, when John was a child and then a teenager, and the rest takes place in the present, and there are times when the movie goes inside the minds of Willis and John. Jumping between past and present, and often letting the sound drop out so that we can understand what's at stake in a scene or sequence just by watching people's body language in a sort of "silent movie" montage with music, this is not a typical "finally the actor directs" debut, where the camera is treated as a recording device for people standing there saying lines.

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The story is told in solid shots by Marcel Zyskind that are unaffectedly beautiful, never superficially pretty, edited by Ronald Sanders in such a way as to make each shot seem to lead to the next as one thought leads to another in your mind. You can always guess why one image gave way to a second and third, based on similarity of objects a drinking glass or a knotted necktie in the present and the past or texture rain, a river, ocean waves. It's poetic, not in the woozy, imprecise, mystical sense in which people often mean that word, but rather that, if you wrote down a list of all the shots in the movie's best and most striking scenes, in order, concentrating only on describing what's in them, you'd have a poem. Mortensen sometimes fumbles the characterizations, erring mainly on the side of flatness. Despite their one-note nature in terms of onscreen temperature and energy, John and Willis are well-rounded men who keep showing us new shadings, but the supporting players particularly Chen, and Linney, who has one strong scene as Sarah and then disappears operate mostly in a reactive, borderline-horrified mode thanks to the old man's ceaseless torrent of insults, some of them misogynistic, racist and homophobic he never forgave his son for being gay.

The drama flows in just one direction, towards the inevitable and necessary moment when John finally breaks and tells his dad how he really feels about taking care of him, about growing up with him, about the abominable way that he treated their mother and his sister flashbacks feature Sverrir Gudnason as the young Willis, Hannah Gross as his wife Gwen, and a succession of young actors as the kids. When you get to that point, though, you'll be justified in asking if that's all there was to it. This is not the kind of film you put on during a holiday when you want something that the extended family can relax and enjoy. This is bitter, sharp stuff, verging on the Paul Schrader film " Affliction " but without the murder plot. There's a lunch on a patio that goes on for several minutes that could be classified as a torture scene even though no one raises a hand. And even after giving Henriksen his due, for inhabiting a career-capping lead performance as a snide, leathery coot who probably only has a few good years left but can't see himself, his children or his grandchildren clearly enough to enjoy them, you still might come away thinking, "What a horrible man—I'm glad I don't have to spend another second with him.

John Peterson är en homosexuell man vars konservativa och homofobiska far Willis börjar uppvisa symtom på demens.

But in fairness, the movie never quite asks you to feel sympathy for Willis. For the most part, it takes a "He made his bed and he's been lying in it for decades" attitude. It gets inside his mind. He's a mid-twentieth century conservative American white man who spent most of his life on a farm in the middle of nowhere, where he could be the king of his little castle.

And now the fiefdom is gone. He's got nothing left but his own reflection, and when he looks at it, all he sees is a past that never was. It's a tragedy of ordinary proportions. Rated R for language throughout including offensive slurs, crude sexual references, brief sexuality and nudity. Viggo Mortensen as John Petersen. Lance Henriksen as Willis Peterson. Sverrir Gudnason as Willis Peterson. Laura Linney as Sarah. Hannah Gross as Gwen. Terry Chen as Eric. David Cronenberg as Dr. Reviews Falling. Matt Zoller Seitz February 05, Running time. Movieweb , January 28, Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 9, Screen Daily , May 15, The Playlist , February 1, Retrieved March 21, Deadline Hollywood. February 5, Retrieved March 21, — via YouTube. February 13, The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 4, Retrieved July 30, Screen International.

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