I love this movie so much

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Brilliant storyline which could have resulted in a powerful, positive movie, but this production falls flat, with lots of ups and downs, unhappily. The film is plagued by a few nasty, loud songs apparently by below-par folk "artistes"; these annoying puerile songs should have been deleted or replaced with something appropriate. and appealing Most reviews rate this flick very low. I noticed two that gave a 10/10 rating!! Hmmm. When I checked (am always very suspicious about 10/10 ratings for movies that average below 6/10), I found that both these "reviewers" have rated only ONE movie on IMDb, yes, this film. These are their headings: "Let's not confuse uncomfortable with bad." by SusanGinny and "Loved it!" by jax-37159. Hmmm!About 35 minutes in, the film pretty much dies for a while, as things come virtually to a dead stop, as though the entire cast and crew had decided to take a break! There's a scene in which two characters do not speak for about a minute, just sit holding hands (the boy fondling the girl)! What sort of direction is THAT? Significance? A few minutes later, there's another irritating song by a silly, drippy singer: what am I missing? What was the meaning? Lost on me. A couple of minutes later the song or another pops up briefly, for no reason. What's going on? 48 minutes in another song with loud solo guitar cuts in "The moon is like a boat, my love, with lemon peel afloat, my love..." HUH? This ditty is sung by the character Abbie, but what the heck does it mean? Incidentally, the superbly beautiful Florence Pugh, born January 1996, plays Abbie; I predict a very bright future for this actress. Anyway, WHO decided on all the music? Good grief! Just a minute later yet ANOTHER irritating loud loud song assaults our ears "I've been waiting for a long time" sung by a lad in a high-pitched voice. This is too damn much. Horrible. By now I just feel like turning off the DVD player and reading a book. As the film continues, there's more hideous, inappropriate, raucous music! Really testing my patience ~ the "music" in this film is a huge put-off. I'll set aside consideration of the strange event happening in this film, at a girls' school, as others have dealt with that and you can read it online... no, it's nothing to do with the music! I will say that the occurrence of the event is repeated and repeated and repeated and repeated.... BORING! We got the idea after the 6th time, thank you!!I'll rate this movie 3/10, cannot go higher, all considered. In other hands, I believe this story could be re-scripted, the oddball music deleted, and made into a film that would rate at least 6/10. #

Greetings from Lithuania.Oh my god, i can't believe that i just applauded by the end of the movie. First time in many many moons, i have applauded not for that it was a good movie, but for that it Finally ended. What a terrible, boring, uninvolving, self pretentious "The Falling" (2014) is. I'm always open to any kind of movies, but only if it is made interestingly and is involving. The story can be biggest nonsense, but if it is made with some skill that glues you to the screen, i'm in for a ride. "The Falling" had nothing that could kept my attention during it's exhausting 1 h 37 min run. This movie dragged beyond anything i've recently watched. The story was so ... bizarre that i barely made though this painful movie in a week, limiting my watch for like 15 min a day - this piece of garbage should be used as a torture devise to terrorists to blow their minds.Overall, "The Falling" makes me angry, that movies like these are being made at all. There is anything that resembles anything close to a compelling motion picture. The only thing that saved this garbage from vote 1 were a quite good songs used in this movie. Listen the soundtrack, and avoid this piece of trash at any cost.

Carol Morley's second feature achieves something rather spectacular, given that it's one of those indolent period pieces featuring two drastically different girlhood friends in Britain, circa 1969, both attending a strict repressive girl's school.It's notable in that, while containing no one action that sets the screen ablaze, it manages to keep you mesmerized for virtually its entire run-time. The themes of the story and the shooting style bear favorable, heavy influence from both Peter Weir's gorgeous Aussie fever-dream "Picnic at Hanging Rock" and Lindsey Anderson's prep-school-in-revolt landmark "If....".It also helps to have two young actresses of the astonishing caliber of Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh to play the lead roles. Williams, as Lydia, carries the emotional load of the piece wonderfully, as the smart-tongued sardonic underachiever with a nightmare home-life and a curiously-stunted sexuality (her older brother only half-teasingly refers to her as "Crazy Face"). Of course, her best friend Abbie (Pugh) is a beautiful blonde bombshell who succeeds at everything she tries, yet still carries an enormous amount of self-destructive baggage.When Abbie gets knocked up ("I don't understand it.... we did the Catholic thing... he PULLED OUT!"), her Sexcapades get even more daring until finally she begins collapsing at school. Shortly after, Lydia begins to experience the same symptoms and it soon becomes a contagion that has the student body literally swooning in the halls, with balletic abandon.Sounds rather stupid, doesn't it? Well, it isn't, thanks to the gravitas Morley imbues both her characters with as well as the mystery beneath which cuts with razor-like precision at the issues of repression, conformism, and parental abandonment. Add to that a career-making turn by Maxine Peake as Lydia's agoraphobic, terminally-depressed mother and you have a film that enraptures more by what it doesn't tell you, than what it does.

Regardless of how beautifully filmed; wonderfully acted; craftily directed, and sympathetically scored a film may be, without a half decent plot and script, it will 'fall' flat on it's face. I think that the majority of reviews here, question the credulity of those individuals and organisations who deemed it fit to invest good cash in this farrago of misplaced ideas and concepts. Sad, really, because, retaining the cast and film-crew, (not the film editors, or appalling film score), with a good, powerful, intelligent script, this could have been so much the better. Instead, what we get are anecdotal stereotypes of stock characters, uttering senseless, sixth-form 'man that's sooo deep', lines, with every metaphorical visual cliché that you could imagine. And the ending? someone could have had the decency to properly edit Maxine Peake's movements, even if that was the most predictable cliché of them all. I'll tell you what would have been better - final close-up of Lydia's sleeping, twitching face. Slowly, she opens her eyes and stares into camera. Ultra CU of one final, heroic twitch as she mouths the line..."And yeah, it was all a dream" CUT!