A beautiful and moving story of the power of dreams and imagination. Uses a storytelling technique reminiscent of the one in "1001 Nights" to create a sometimes blurry line between reality and fantasy. The fantastic locations and characters are unforgettable and not just on the fantasy side of things.. A tragedy, a fairy tale, but most importantly a great movie!

"The Fall" tells the story of a young girl, who is treated in a hospital and gets to know a young man that promises to tell her an adventurous story if she gets him the pills he needs to kill himself. Over the course of time, a story of love and hate, adventures and death evolves, that contains many autobiographical elements of both the story-teller and his listener.First of all you have to pay credit for the creativity, with which this movie is carried out. Also, the plot is magnificent and definitely different from many similarly schemed movies that are distributed each and every year. Unfortunately, for me the film feeled a bit to quiet. I understand that this man is broken-hearted and really on the edge of a depression but still the film could have used some more tension and twists. As it is, this is a beautiful story of a broken love, but it doesn't keep you on the edge of your chair.All in all it is nonetheless definitely worth a watch. Beautiful stories like this one aren't realized every day and for the superb pictures alone you should give this film a try.

Leads great. Settings wondrous. Spoilt for me by violence of the finale. Redeemed however by genuine silent movie out-takes at end. Overall, compelled to watch until the end because it's just a different movie to the usual.

At the core of the film, there's an interesting story; an interesting accidental relationship between two characters who form an unlikely union, as the forces of mutually beneficial destiny form one of the main themes.The problem isn't the story, and the symbols there...it's just the film is missing the key components that usually make this sort of film emotionally engaging, where the ending is a climax. Here, the ending is a bit confusing if anything, and poor on the emotional level. There just isn't any tension at any moment, or any redeeming quality to the last minutes.Perhaps the film should've focused less on certain elements of the plot, developed other scenes more...there's like an imbalance about it, like some areas feel unfinished, others too exposed...Should be said the lead character is good looking, and a fine actor but a bit too precious... and the little Romanian girl is incredibly natural and the film captures her spontaneity amazingly well, with her broken English and so on.Interesting, but flawed.