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
MALCOLM & MARIE: 3 STARS “Malcolm & Marie,” a two-hander starring Zendaya and John David Washington, now streaming on Netflix, is a pandemic movie. It was shot during lockdown, in one location under strict health protocols, but there’ is no mention of a virus or face masks. Instead, it crackles with anxiety, a feeling many are now all too familiar with. Washington and Zendaya are the titular couple; an up-and-coming movie director and aspiring actress. Their romantic relationship is strained when he forgets to thank her from the stage during his new film’s premier. She’s not in the movie, but believes much of the story was borrowed from the more troubled moments of her life. It’s 1 a.m., tensions are running high as the gloves come off in an escalating power struggle.