A difficult movie to understand, as the action moves from a funeral, to a roadside fair, to a wedding reception, to a bar, and back to somebody's house, without any sense of purpose to the meanderings. Meanwhile the viewer is left to untangle the various relationships and underst... read more
Nina Proll,
Birgit Minichmayr,
Ursula Strauss,
Kathrin Resetarits,
Gabriela Hegedus
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The death of a schoolteacher leads to a reunion between a handful of close friends in this drama from writer and director Barbara Albert. Five longtime friends return to the town where they grew up fo... read more
DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
Stats: 29 reviews
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Barbara Albert, the director-writer of the Austrian soaper Falling, probably never thought to call her film One Wedding and a Funeral, but it would have been an appropriate title. Full Review
It's all quite noisy, but there doesn't seem to be very much going on as the shared confidences and female bonding are not especially convincing.
A well-played, cleanly shot but spectacularly empty tale of five female schoolmates reunited at a funeral for a teacher. Full Review
If it weren't for the fine performances, FALLING might have proven sleep-inducing. Full Review
Albert makes her existential study lively and entertaining through a mixture of thoughtful character development and unpredictable storytelling. Full Review
Charging Albert's film with looking too much like an American chick flick is to give it short shrift. Full Review
Fallen is about listlessness in the face of personal and global turmoil and about gesturing toward a political stance. Full Review
Part feel-bad cinema and part female-bonding session, Barbara Albert's Big Chill-ish melodrama gathers together five former schoolmates who meet up again at a professor's funeral. Full Review
Meanders forward with little apparent direction and virtually no interesting drama. Full Review
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