The Fall (DVD)

"I'm going to tell you an epic story," Roy, a hospitalised stuntman tells Alexandria, a young immigrant with a broken arm. "Do you know what epic means?" Alexandria doesn't, but by the end of The Fall, we certainly do. Filmed in twenty-four countries, seventeen years from conception to production, Indian director Tarsem's creation is a tale flowing with vivid, lucid imagination realised in genuinely epic proportions. The story at its heart, though, is a simple one. Roy and Alexandria meet as victims of misfortune in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital; Roy (Lee Pace) unable to walk after trying to impress the girlfriend being stolen by his film's ...  Read the complete review

Sometime long ago, during the early days of cinema, a stuntman lies in a hospital bed in downtown Los Angeles. He has just crushed his spine in an accident where he fell from a bridge performing a terrifying and dangerous stunt - a stunt only a lunatic would perform. He may never walk, run or carry out any more stunts. The very same lunatic has just lost his pretty girlfriend to a very handsome and leading man. On one floor above in the hospital is a young girl, five years of age. She is an immigrant who has broken her arm after falling from an orange tree on a terraced grove where her gypsy Romanian family work. This young girl has a very curious disposition ...  Read the complete review

The Fall, Tarsem Singh's follow-up to The Cell, his divisive, controversial debut, is a similarly idiosyncratic, visually-stunning work as likely to inspire awe and wonder as it is boredom and frustration. A loose remake of Zako Heskija's 1981 Bulgarian film Yo ho ho, The Fall concerns the relationship between stuntman Roy Walker (played by Lee Pace and with no connection, alas, to the beloved Irish gameshow host...) and pre-teen Alexandria (Catinca Untaru), both of whom are patients at a Los Angeles hospital sometime around 1920. The film lunges between this "real world" environment and the fantastic, mythological alternative within ...  Read the complete review

I find it very hard to put into words what I have just seen, and to be honest with you trying to piece together the movies synopsis for my opening sentence in itself proved a problem. But then put yourself in my shoes, I have seen what has arguably been one of the biggest movies of all time, filmed in 18 different countries and 26 locations including India, China, Egypt, Romania, Bali, Turkey, and The United Kingdom. With one of the biggest casts of extras', the largest film crews I have ever seen, and for an adventure movie other than for a few animated sequences there is absolutely no computer generated animation. Directed by Tarsem and backed by Spike Jonze and David ...  Read the complete review

==BACKGROUND INFORMATION== Prominent Indian director Tarsem Singh (also known as Tarsem) directed his second feature film "The Fall" and it was first premiered at Toronto Film Festival in 2006. Later this movie released world-wide for general audiences in 2008.This movie revolves around a strange but meaningful relationship between a five year old injured girl and a frustrated young movie-stuntman in a hospital. The story of this movie loosely based on a Bulgarian movie made in 1981 named "Yo Ho Ho". Though, Tarsem Singh, Dan Gilroy and Nico Soultanakis re-wrote and modified the script in order to have a modern and ...  Read the complete review