The Falling
Filmfest 2015
United Kingdom 2014
Original version
(Original: English)
German Premiere
Director: Carol Morley
Section: Spotlight
It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved. The authorities claim that there is nothing seriously wrong, but Lydia refuses to accept this, and in seeking the truth, discovers a long buried secret.
"All of my films are interested in the importance in life of constructing an identity. When Lydia says to the psychiatrist that she thinks each individual is actually three people: the person that others see; the person you think you are; and the person you really are – she is absorbed in a profound sense of what a person really is. How does another person's definition of you alter who you are?"
Carol Morley
Cast: Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Maxine Peake, Monica Dolan, Greta Scacchi
Credits
Screenplay: Carol Morley
Director of Photography: Agnes Godard
Film Editor: Chris Wyatt
Composer: Tracey Thorn
Production Designer: Jane Levick
Costume Design: Sian Jenkins
Sound: Grant Bridgeman, Paul Davies
Producer: Luc Roeg
Production Company: Independent Film Company
Co-Producer: Cairo Cannon
Co-Production Company: Cannon and Morley Productions
World Sales: Independent Film Company
Director: Carol Morley
