The Falling (2014)

The Falling: Directed by Carol Morley. With Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Anna Burnett. It’s 1969 at a strict English girls’ school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.

“In all truth I came by this film due to the fact that I was actually a boarder at the school where this was filmed! Spent 5 years there (MANY moons ago), and ultimately the school closed, so me and a ton of other former-pupils were doing the rounds to watch the movie and see our old school!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI then noticed that Maisie Williams and Florence Pugh were in it, so had SOME degree of expectation.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs an ex-Director myself, I can whole-heartedly say that this was the worst directing I have ever seen. Period! The shot selection and scene setting (of which there was almost none) was frankly dreadful and in truth – amateurish.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story itself lacked ANY sense of position, location, scene setting, plot – I could go on…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is totally beyond me what the BFI were thinking when they agreed to fund this piece of simply utter rubbish.”