This second feature film from the creator of The Cell is "like a Terry Gilliam fantasy directed by Zhang Yimou and reimagined by a child." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) The child is Alexandria, a little immigrant girl in 1920s Los Angeles, hospitalized with a broken arm. One of her fellow patients, Roy, a silent movie stuntman paralyzed from the waist down, befriends her and begins regaling her with an extravagant adventure, doled out one chapter at a time in exchange for morphine tablets which he convinces Alexandria to steal. As Roy narrates the story, whose growing list of characters begins to resemble pivotal figures in the lives of both the patients, we see the tale imagined as Alexandria hears it, and it dazzles with mind-boggling visuals—"vast romantic images so stunning I had to check twice, three times, to be sure the film actually claims to have absolutely no computer-generated imagery...Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself. Tarsem...spent millions of his own money to finance The Fall, filmed it for four years in 28 countries and has made a movie that you might want to see for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it." (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) more at thefallthemovie.com 35mm
2008, color, 1 hour 57 minutes, India/UK/USA