Catinca Untaru | pinartarhan.com

The Fall starring Lee Pace — Tarsem Singh's The Fall is just magical, fun and very emotional. Lovely job from everyone involved. And as always, great performance from Lee Pace.

1920s, Los Angeles. A hospital.

Roy (Lee Pace) is a bed-bound patient, injured from a movie stunt. Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) is a little girl with a broken arm. When they meet, Roy starts telling her a story of epic proportions. Roy is a fine story-teller, Alexandria has a wonderful imagination and director Tarsem takes us through a wonderfully bizarre journey with amazing visuals. Bandits, Indians, Charles Darwin, a wicked governor and other colorful characters are all parts of this tale. Reality and fantasy are impressively inter-wined and they are both very good.

I dare not say more about the plot because each detail is so important, I just don’t want to take away from the movie.

This film is just magical. It does get a bit slow at some parts but the climax more than makes up for it. I found out it is based on a 1981 Bulgarian film called Yo ho ho. I was a little disappointed because I had thought the story was so original. But it doesn’t matter. It may not be original but it is damn good. The acting is lovely and it really grabs you.