{"id":3124,"date":"2009-03-24T20:42:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T20:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloomblog.wordpress.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-12-31T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T00:18:14","slug":"one-of-the-most-beautiful-films-i-have-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/one-of-the-most-beautiful-films-i-have-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the most beautiful films I have ever seen…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t know why it has taken me so long to watch this, I’ve had it for a while and heard so much about it but today I finally watched Tarsem’s “The Fall”. It’s Tarsem’s second feature after the Jennifer Lopez film “The Cell”, an underrated film but not a patch on this.<\/p>\n

It’s unlike anything you have ever seen. It’s reminiscent to something like “The Princess Bride” or “Pan’s\u00a0Labyrinth” \u00a0but so unique on many levels.<\/p>\n

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Apparently\u00a0this film was made over a number of years and financed by the Director himself. Filming took place in 26 locations across 18 countries and it shows. There is no CGI in this film, all these locations are real and wow are they stunning. DoP \u00a0Colin Watkinson<\/a>, who according to imdb has only been DP on a couple of films, lots of music videos and\u00a0commercials\u00a0and he’s done lot’s of Entourage. A show I like but this guy doesn’t seem to be used in features anywhere near as much as he should be!<\/p>\n

There are times when it reminds me of Ron Fricke’s “Baraka”, itself shot over a long period of time across many, many countries. In fact one scene must be an homage to Baraka! Take a look below…<\/p>\n

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It is at times hard to believe what you are seeing on the screen is actually real, and knowing that it is makes you even more in awe. There hasn’t been a film in recent memory that can touch this for sheer visual spectacle, certainly not one without CGI. Its so easy these days to just dismiss stuff as CGI or even matte paintings…surely that’s too beautiful to be real but it is!<\/p>\n

The performances of the two leads, Lee Pace as the crippled stuntman and Catinca Untaru is magical. They play so well off of each other. Pace, you may well know from the delight that was “Pushing Daisies” a show\u00a0unfortunately\u00a0cancelled recently.\u00a0Apparently\u00a0they shot the hospital scenes chronologically over 6 weeks and it pays off as Romanian Untaru’s English gets better as the film\u00a0progresses\u00a0as she spends more time with Pace retelling his story.<\/p>\n

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