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The Artist s Wife (Bruce Dern/Lena Olin),
The Roads Not Taken (Javier Bardem),
Dick Johnson Is Dead (Netflix doc about a daughter reenacting imaginative scenarios of her dementia-suffering psychiatrist father s impending death), the BBC s
Elizabeth Is Missing (with Glenda Jackson s bravura silver screen return after a 30-year absence), the Australian
Relic, and
With
Falling, the inevitable LGBTQ-related spin on this issue has arrived, written and directed in his debut by Viggo Mortensen, thrice Oscar-nominated actor, but forever earmarked as Aragorn, the King of Gondor, in
The Lord of the Rings. A contemporary polymath, dabbling in poetry, experimental music, and abstract painting, Mortensen has dedicated
Falling Review: Viggo Mortensen & Lance Henriksen Deliver Career-Bests
William Healy as 15-year-old John Peterson
Etienne Kellici as 10-year-old John Peterson
Grady McKenzie as 5-year-old John Peterson
Lance Henriksen as Willis Peterson
Sverrir Gudnason as Young Willis Peterson
Laura Linney as Sarah Peterson
Ava Kozelj as 10-year-old Sarah Peterson
Carina Battrick as 5-year-old Sarah Peterson
Hannah Gross as Gwen Peterson
Terry Chen as Eric Peterson
Piers Bijvoet as Will
Written & Directed by Viggo Mortensen
Falling Review:
The subject of dementia is one so fraught with sadness and unknowingness that it’s often tackled on screen in one of two ways: Humor or Tragedy. While the former path is certainly a feasible one, as humor is a coping mechanism for sadness, it often leads to unfair or disingenuous portrayals of the very real mental issue many face as they get older, whereas the latter approach generally bashes a viewer over the head with the message to sympath