Falling

Local title
Langemine
Original title
Falling
Director
Viggo Mortensen
Country
United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark
Year
2020
Programme
Current Waves

Academy Award and BAFTA nominee actor Viggo Mortensen explores the fractures and contrasts that make up a modern family in his directorial debut, "Falling", an intimate drama about a son’s relationship with his ageing father.

John Petersen (Mortensen) lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter Monica in Southern California. His father Willis is a farmer whose attitudes and behaviour belong to a far more traditional era and family model. When Willis travels to Los Angeles for an indefinite stay with John’s family in order to search for a place to retire, these two very different worlds collide.

With "Falling", Viggo Mortensen finally proves himself a true multi-talent: inspired by his own family history, he wrote the script, plays the lead part and also wrote the music score.

Director
Viggo Mortensen
Screenwriter
Viggo Mortensen
Cast
Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Terry Chen, Sverrir Gudnason, Hannah Gross
Producer
Viggo Mortensen, Chris Curling, Daniel Bekerman
DoP
Marcel Zyskind
Editor
Ronald Sanders
Music
Viggo Mortensen
Production
Perceval Pictures, Zephyr Films, Scythia Films
Runtime
Language
Spanish, English
Subtitles
Estonian, English

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