Falling review, Culture Whisper
Often when actors turn their hands to directing, they focus too much on the performances and not enough on anything else. But Falling, written and directed by Lord of the Rings actor Viggo Mortensen, stands as one of the better examples.
Maybe Mortensen’s debut feels different because he’s more than an Oscar-nominated actor. He's also a poet, a painter, a photographer, and a musician (even composing the soundtrack for this film). With all those visual and prosodial talents in mind, his father-son dementia drama is a harshly curious movie showing the potential for a film-making career ahead.
