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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2008: #71 The Fall

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The Fall Roadside

#71. The Fall

Director: Tarsem
Writers: Dan Gilroy, Nico Soultanakis and Tarsem
Producers: 100% financed by the filmmaker himself.
Distributor: Roadside Attractions

The Gist: Inspired by a short, Bulgarian film the director
saw at a film festival almost a decade ago – this takes place in a
hospital where a little girl with a broken collar bone meets a
bedridden man who starts telling her a fantastical story which reflects
his state of mind. As time goes by fiction and reality start to
intertwine in this uplifting epic fantasy.

Fact: Tarsem worked on this film in over 20 different countries.

See It: The ultimate art-house flick of 2008: if you like his commercials, video work and found The Cell intriguing then make sure to mark your calendars.

Release Date/Status?: Roadside Attractions is looking to release the picture in March.

 
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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