Last week, we learned that a 4K director’s cut of Tarsem Singh’s stunning, underseen 2008 film The Fall would be making its world premiere in August—at a film festival few of us ordinary folks would be able to get to. But we won’t have long to wait! Deadline has the exclusive word that MUBI is releasing the film in the U.S. on September 27th.
It would not be an exaggeration to say that some of us have already marked our calendars.
The Fall is the story of a stuntman named Roy (Lee Pace) who, while laid up after an accident, encounters a young girl named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru). He begins to tell her fantastical stories, woven from his heartbreak and from the people and things in their sun-soaked California hospital.
There is no short summary that does this film justice; it’s about stories, storytellers, and those we tell stories to, and it’s absolutely beautiful to look at; Singh filmed it over the course of several years, in more than 20 locations around the world. Roger Ebert called it “a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms,” continuing, “Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself.”
The Fall arrives (again) on September 27th, presumably on MUBI, though one strongly hopes it gets a theatrical release too. And a DVD? Pretty please?
