EPISODE · May 7, 2021 · 52 MIN
The Fall
from My Favourite Film Podcast
This week in my birthday edition, I talk to my birthday twin Kirsty Ford (Happy Birthday Kirsty) about the 2006 film The Fall.Directed by Tarsem Singh (as Tarsem)Based on the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho written by Valeri Petrov - who does get name checked with a writing credit on this film.The film is takes place in a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, where an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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This week in my birthday edition, I talk to my birthday twin Kirsty Ford (Happy Birthday Kirsty) about the 2006 film The Fall.Directed by Tarsem Singh (as Tarsem)Based on the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho written by Valeri Petrov - who does get name checked with a writing credit on this film.The film is takes place in a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, where an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story of five mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality blurs as the tale advances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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