“Sound of Falling” by German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski made his debut on Wednesday afternoon in Cannes, the first film from the competition to the first in the Grand Light. If glowing critics are an indication, it seems that the festival already has a great competitor of Palme d’Or. The drama is the follow -up of Schilinski to his first “Dark Blue Girl” in 2017.
While “The sound of the fall” met a standing ovation on the shortest side for the festival (three and a half minutes), the post -relaxing reaction was more or less hampered by the theater for the next program: The first “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning” by Tom Cruise. Schilinski also appeased the public when she took the microphone to thank her cast. The crowd continued to applaud by leaving the theater to make way for the first “mission”.
Variety Guy Lodge praised the film as an “overwhelming” epic which sends its director “in the big leagues” with a “second surprisingly ready and ambitious feature”. Cinema criticism Alison Wilmore wrote for Vulture that “we may have already seen the best film in Cannes”. David Ehrlich of Indiewire praised the film as a “fascinating stunning”. Sensual raves followed in the Hollywood Reporter, The Guardian and more. The film is looking for a distribution to us.
Schilinski’s film focuses on four girls – Alma, Erika, Angelika and Lenka – who each spend their youth on the same farm in the north of Germany. “While the house evolves over a century, the echoes of the past linger within its walls,” explains the synopsis of the film. “Although separated by time, their lives are starting to reflect each other.”
In an interview Variety Before the first, Schilinski said: “This film is, above all, on memory. On the way we remember and how we perceive.
While she and co-series Louise Peter wrote the script together on a farm, Schilinski said she had been struck by “the simultaneity of time”. She recalled: “There are spirits and ghosts in us, and ghosts who live in this old farm. When you enter a room, you do not know what happened there, but you still feel it … This place had been abandoned for 50 years, but everything was still there, including a spoon that a farmer has deposited for the last time.”
Thus, “Sound of Falling” explores how memories shape our destinations. “They burn under their skin,” said Schilinski. “When we talk about memory, what can we really access?” What parts of our past? Because of the way memory works, it is sometimes not the greatest trauma or the biggest events that condition us most. ”
“Sound of Falling” is produced by Maren Schmitt, Lucas Schmidt and Lasse Scharte (for Studio Zentral) with ZDF / Das Kleine Fernsehspiel (Burkhard Althoff and Melvina Kotios) and funded by Mitteldeutsche Meddienförderg (BKM) and Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF). MK2 represents international sales rights.
