Falling (2020)
- Directed by
- Viggo Mortensen
- Genre
- drama film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United Kingdom, Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Rated
- M
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 213 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A middle-aged gay man navigates his difficult relationship with his aging father, who suffers from dementia and holds homophobic views. The father moves in with his son and his husband, forcing long buried conflicts to surface.
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What happens
Falling is a 2020 drama film written and directed by Viggo Mortensen in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Mortensen as John Peterson, a middle-aged gay man whose homophobic father Willis (Lance Henriksen) starts to exhibit symptoms of dementia, forcing him to sell the family farm and move to Los Angeles to live with John and his husband Eric (Terry Chen). The film's cast also includes Sverrir Gudnason, Laura Linney, Hannah Gross and David Cronenberg. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2020. Modern Films released it in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2020. Quiver Distribution and Mongrel Media released it in the United States and Canada on February 5, 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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