Film
The Fall
- When
Tuesday July 15, 2008 (6pm)
Wednesday July 16, 2008 (6pm)
Thursday July 17, 2008 (8:15pm)
Friday July 18, 2008 (8pm)
Saturday July 19, 2008 (4 & 8:30pm)
- Where
- Cinema Paradiso (503 SE 6th St, 954.525.3456)
- Price
- $9
- Details
- http://www.fliff.com/film.asp?filmID=2054&catID=9
- In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to steal a fatal dose of medicine, he seduces the child with a swashbuckling revenge saga that proves visually arresting enough to compensate for its protracted sentimentality. Writer/director Tarsem Singh's last project, The Cell (2000), was a muddle of psychological science-fiction that, like this one, paid unofficial homage to such artists as Damien Hirst and Hieronymus Bosch. Both films provide a gloriously art-directed study of how style can outstrip substance so effectively that you barely notice it happening. – Lisa Rosman
