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The Fall
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Wednesday July 22, 2009 (2, 7 & 9:25pm)
Thursday July 23, 2009 (7 & 9:25pm)
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- Price
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$9
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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 Damian 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.
