Sound of Falling
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Why watch?
“The visual consideration given to the storytelling means that the harshness of story is balanced by a rich visual experience for the audience, one that at times even comes to feel romantic and dreamlike. This feels like a nod to the rich inner lives of the characters and is a sharp reminder to audiences that this is a work of art, a work of feeling and emotion, whatever historical facts and waypoints may have been plotted in the film's 155-minute runtime. It is a film to be felt and experienced, and whilst that makes it hard at times, it’s also the extreme pleasure of the film.”
Wendy Cook,
Head of CInema
Hyde Park Pick: Sound of Falling
Four girls, Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s), and Lenka (2020s) each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls.
Whilst decades separate the girls, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return.