Peter Greenaway - The Falls (1980)

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Assembled over a five-year period from a combination of self-generated and found film footage, The Falls takes the form of a directory detailing the biographies of the 92 victims of the Violent Unknown Event (or VUE), a mysterious apocalyptic occurrence that has left a substantial section of the British public speaking bizarre, invented languages, dreaming of water and identifying themselves with birds.

"THE FALLS is Greenaway's first feature film and a hydra-headed biopic. It documents the lives of ninety-two victims of a 'Violent Unexplained Event'. Conjured into being as a modern Babel myth, the 'VUE' has left its victims with the ability to speak one or several of ninety-two different new-minted languages (Capistan, Allow-ease, Hartileas B etc) and with a myriad of physical changes to boot. The victims chosen for the film are randomly picked from a total of 19 million VUE casualties because they all have surnames beginning with 'Fall' from Orchard Falla and Constance Ortuit Fallabur to Leasting Fallvo and Anthior Fallwaste. The events of their lives, both before and after the 'fall' of VUE, are encapsulated in biographies ranging in length from five seconds to five minutes." - Harlan Kennedy, Film Comment

"Electrifyingly intelligent... The Falls is monstrously clever, undeniably inventive, certainly monumental, and terminally cute. Although impossible to dismiss, the film's most appreciative audience may be addicts of "Puns and Anagrams" or those who find Pale Fire Nabokov's great novel." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

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Peter Greenaway - The Falls (1980)

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