The Falling

Wow.

I remember watching a film called The Falling, which had Maisie Williams, the young lady from Game of Thrones.

And it was a modern retelling, I think, of the Lancashire Seven.

It was about schoolgirls who were falling over, having fits.

And people are shouting at them and saying there's nothing wrong with them and they are and whatnot.

And that just reminded me of that.

I've seen that film.

Yeah, it was a very strange film because I thought in the end there was going to be a horror film twist and that they were going to turn into zombies or vampires or something or, you know, it was going to be something like that.

So other people have compared it to films like Lady Bird, Booksmart, Frances Ha.

I think it's closer to kind of s- the spikier productions like, you know, Heathers or Mean Girls or, or Clueless, and for me tonally it falls somewhere between the kind of brilliant awkward teen evocations of Richard Ayoade's Submarine and that sort of sublime swooning of Carol Morley's The Falling, which I love and which is a film which is very inspired by Picnic at Hanging Rock.

And that kind of strange dreaminess is in this, although this is much more in a kind of comedic register.

I mean, this has got mystery, but it's also got that thing that the very best films have which is recognition.

She's made several films.

One is called The Falling, in which she gave an unknown actor called Florence Pugh her first role.

She's made films about her own life, one called The Alcohol Years.

A film that I was already aware of before we met Carol was called Dreams of a Life about a woman who died in London.

So, and on this module was Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Virgin Suicides.

It was also like The Craft, The Falling.

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