The Fall

Do you remember watching the trailers for House of Flying Daggers, and Hero, and thinking "that looks amazing", and then realising that they were, in fact, absolute dogshit?

Well last night I watched a film that I would probably consider the joint most beautiful film I have ever watched, and it is genuinely entertaining and original, without ever taking itself too seriously, charges that certainly cant be leveled at the aforementioned. Its called The Fall, and is directed by Tarsem Singh, who was responsible for the Cell, and recently worked on The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I'm not sure if its been out in Britain at the cinema, or even on DVD yet, I have never seen any trailers or promo for it before, but IMDB has it down as being out in 2006.

The intro scene is incredible, resembling the photography of O.Winston Link, and things just get more visually lavish from there. It does (very occasionally) look like a nineties building society advert, but in a good way. I won't bang on about the story too much, its nothing that will blow your mind, but it cracks along at a pace, and there are some really nice naturalistic bits of acting from the films leads, Lee Pace and the young Catinca Untaru. Overall, the film was extremely entertaining, and if you like the films of Wes Anderson, then this will be right up your alley.