I’m particularly interested in finding this film. Produced in 2006, The Fall won numerous awards and critique’s appreciations. Why such interest? Because the main character is a little girl, Alexandria, who is portrayed by Catinca Untaru, the first Romanian child to ever feature an international movie of such proportions.

The 40 th edition of International Film Festival of Catalonia, Sitges 2007, closed with the closing session in which the award for best film went to - without voices against - the U.S. film The Fall of the Indian origin filmmaker Tarsem Singh (1961), film which already successful debuted in the Toronto Film Festival in 2006.

Tarsem is a filmmaker who has been preferentially tanning in the world of video and advertisements. He directed the music video “Hold On” from “In Vogue” and REM’s “Losing My Religion” video which won, among many other awards, the prize for best video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards 1991.

Then came his first feature film - The Cell (2000), which was, incidentally, honored with the presence of Jennifer Lopez as a protagonist. Thus, his first “work” got applauses for his visual art and criticism for his narrative vacuity. For some years he was involved with the production company New Line Cinema. And finally, nearly six years after its first movie, along comes The Fall.

According to his own statements, he encountered great difficulties casting for the girl protagonist of the story, finally interpreted by the Romanian Catinca Untaru, as well as having to film in 28 countries. These factors increased the complexity of the project and it took longer than desired.

 

The Fall gives us a fairy tale without fairies set in the 20’s that combines fact and fiction through a third element - imagination, all framed in a visual aesthetics of great beauty and a very carefully selected soundtrack.

You can see for yourself The Fall is very well done. Here’s the trailer, enjoy it!