The Falling Star

Name: The Falling Star
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy
Released: August 30, 2024
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 54

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: August 30, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel (The Fairy, Lost In Paris) delight audiences with their blend of slapstick and burlesque. Their latest “crime movie” transmutes the codes of film noir through their characteristically colorful palette and clownish plot twists. Abel plays Boris, a former activist hiding from his dark past, keeping in theFiona Gordon and Dominique Abel (The Fairy, Lost In Paris) delight audiences with their blend of slapstick and burlesque. Their latest “crime movie” transmutes the codes of film noir through their characteristically colorful palette and clownish plot twists. Abel plays Boris, a former activist hiding from his dark past, keeping in the shadows as a barkeeper, until a one-armed vigilante finally hunts him down. The fortuitous appearance of a double—the depressive recluse Dom (also played by Abel) seems to offer the perfect decoy. But his tenacious and loopy ex-wife, the private eye Fiona (Gordon), could foil their master plan. Abel and Gordon’s memorable dose of hilarity seems perfectly calibrated to the social mood; each deceptively minimalistic set piece brims with a cinematic intelligence that recalls Tati and Keaton. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Ethan Padgett

Aug 31, 2024

Since the film has a loose storyline, it allows the comedy to shine. We are even treated to an awkward dance scene at the film’s end. Gordon and Abel emulate the humor of great slapstick comedians in their own unique way. If quirky comedy is up your alley, check it out. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Sep 5, 2024

If we don’t fall in love with it, we kind of grin and fall in “like” before all is (un)said and done. Read full review

The Film Stage Dan Mecca

Aug 30, 2024

What one will remember from The Falling Star are small things. The way characters get into cars or attempt to fall asleep. The way they pour beer or run from gunfire. For this writer, the small things do not add up to quite enough. Yet when it’s funny, it is really funny. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

Aug 30, 2024

The Falling Star offers little in the way of dramatic tension or intrigue, and its comedy, mildly clever at first, starts to feel repetitive. The word “tedious” popped into my mind a few times, perhaps because the world of the film is so small that it starts to feel airless and lacking in surprise. Read full review

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