3. The Falling Sells Itself As Something Less... Weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONA-hKyWSiM The Film: The Falling What It Promised: A strange boarding school drama populated by strange young women. What It Actually Was: Carol Morely's follow-up to her acclaimed Dreams Of A Life is a desperately bizarre affair and one that personally took two viewings to truly appreciate. The Falling is bold and provocative cinema, weighted by a brilliant central performance from Game Of Thrones' Maisie Williams. The interesting thing about the trailer however is that it pretty much showcases an entirely different film from the one you'll view. In fact, the bulk of core footage here amounts to around 10 minutes of the first act... A deeply symphonic work, the picture revolves around a 'pandemic' in which girls randomly start fainting at a steadily growing rate. Is it a work of an evil power; a religious spirit? Or is it merely teenagers desperately begging for attention? The psychosexual drama bathes in its ambiguity and perhaps that's why the arcing storyline is totally absent here, but the trailer's foundations are solely formed around schoolgirl lust which is both unsettling and a little ill-minded. The film is heavily rendered by awkward themes including prolonged bouts of incest and suggestive sibling arousal; again totally missing from the promotional material.
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