creer-720-461537 I thought it was very good - it's a slow atmospheric movie in the British movie tradition of Nic Roeg. Reviews here complain of unanswered questions but that's only if you don't pay attention. I did think it was a private school, but seems not - a private school of the 1960s would be more the environment where repression and hysteria are confined, only to spiral out of control. It did lose pace in the last quarter, though concluded with a strong scene. Acting was excellent from all the main parties. I'll certainly look out for her next film. Ludicrously I'm now required to add more lines to make my review more interesting - a pithy review of the salient points is far better than a lengthy ramble. As other's have said above the mother figure was the least satisfactory - being a class conscious Brit there was a clear disconnect between the mother's Southern England rural accent and the daughter's well spoken accent - was it meant to be a grammar school? I don't know.. otherwise the late 60's was very well drawn.

851222 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.

davideo-2 STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning In the late 60s, at an all girls school with a strict stance on discipline, straight laced Lydia (Maisie Williams) and her promiscuous mate Abbie (Florence Pugh) are going through the trials and tribulations of school life. When Abbie falls pregnant, and then tragedy strikes, a mysterious fainting spell strikes the girls at the school and then to others, leading to a mysterious ritual in the forest.This unusual offering appeared out of nowhere in a few theatres last April, an out the way offering with a mysterious allure about it. Smaller scale, independent films often get less publicity, which in some cases can make them all the more of a treat. A lot of opinion seems to be divided, but for me, Carol Morley's blend of horror and drama is a promise that doesn't pay off, with an impressive, quiet sense of atmosphere about it, but an incomprehensible story that's impossible to get in to.Something about it's eerie nature keeps you with it to the end, but with such a flimsily established story and characters you end up unable to really feel for, the end result is not as great as hoped. One thinks Morley was too obsessed with reaching for an art house flair, at the expense of making something that had any chance of translating to an audience. **

ryan-883-76096 Loved everything about this film; the music, cinematography and imagery; it really did conjure another world. The attention to detail captured the era perfectly and completely transported me back to those hormonal and angsty teenage years. I don't think I've ever known the subject of mass hysteria tackled before, but this film really captures the essence of it and made it at once believable yet subject to scepticism. Loved the setting: the kitchen hairdresser, overalls and crockery; the outward elegance of the school hiding the severe regime within; all evocative of the time. What goes unsaid, self denial and restraint hiding a myriad of secrets and emotions. The ending really moved me, and I think provided explanations if you needed them. The teachers are typical of a strict religious education with their stiff etiquette and austere asexuality. Not a 'Mrs' among them with their odd ways and antiquated rules. Greta Scacchi was a complete tour de force. I couldn't decide if I wanted to hit her or hug her! And Maxine Peake was, well, as wonderful as she always is. Her expressions/non-expressions conveying her entrapment in her own kitchen and her undisclosed past.