FALLING

DRAMA | ENGLISH | 112 MIN

John (Viggo Mortensen) lives with his partner, Eric (Terry Chen), and their daughter, Mónica (Gabby Velis), in California, far from the traditional rural life he left behind years ago. John's father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a headstrong man from a bygone era, lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up. Willis is in the early stages of dementia, making running the farm on his own increasingly difficult, so John brings him to stay at his California home so that he and his sister Sarah (Linney) might help him find a place near them to relocate to. Unfortunately, their best intentions ultimately run up against Willis’s adamant refusal to change his way of life in the slightest.

DIRECTOR/WRITER: Viggo Mortensen
CAST: Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Laura Linney, Terry Chen, Sverrir Gudnason & Hannah Gross

UK release supported by the Creative Europe: MEDIA programme

“artful, moving and it shows a more profound understanding
of the condition than other depictions of dementia in recent years ”
★★★★

— THE TIMES

“offers 80-year-old Henriksen the meatiest
role of his astonishing career”
★★★★

— THE GUARDIAN

“Falling lets all the characters, likeable or not, be as complex
and difficult to understand as real humans tend to be.”
★★★★★

— FAR OUT

“quietly assured cinema … a fictional family as persuasive as those on
the pages of a Richard Ford or Richard Yates novel”
★★★★

— THE TELEGRAPH

FESTIVALS/AWARDS

Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, Label

Sundance Film Festival
World Premiere

European Film Awards
Nominee: Best Actor (Viggo Mortensen)

Torronto International Film Festival
Official Selection

San Sebastian Film Festival
Winner: Sebastiane Award

Stockholm International Film Festival
Official Selection

Lumière Film Festival
Special Presentation

Goya Awards
Nominee: Best European Film

Canadian Screen Awards
Nominee: Achievement in Costume Design, Achievement in Editing, Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Achievement in Casting and Achievement in Art Direction / Production Design

FALLING

DRAMA | ENGLISH | 112 MIN

“artful, moving and it shows a more profound understanding of the condition than other depictions of dementia in recent years ” ★★★★

“offers 80-year-old Henriksen the meatiest role of his astonishing career”★★★★

“Falling lets all the characters, likeable or not, be as complex and difficult to understand as real humans tend to be.”★★★★★

“quietly assured cinema … a fictional family as persuasive as those on the pages of a Richard Ford or Richard Yates novel”★★★★

FESTIVALS/AWARDS

“artful, moving and it shows a more profound understanding
of the condition than other depictions of dementia in recent years ”
★★★★

“offers 80-year-old Henriksen the meatiest
role of his astonishing career”
★★★★

“Falling lets all the characters, likeable or not, be as complex
and difficult to understand as real humans tend to be.”
★★★★★

“quietly assured cinema … a fictional family as persuasive as those on
the pages of a Richard Ford or Richard Yates novel”
★★★★