The Falls *
Directed by Peter Greenaway. This is an extreme endurance test, running nearly 3 hours and 15 minutes. Like his shorts that I reviewed before, here again he narrates 92 stories of people affected by VUE(Violent Unknown Event) whose names contain the word "fall" against the backdrop of images. However, the difference is that it is not a short (infact unbearably long). Any novelty in technique is quickly offset by tiresome (although somewhat funny) narration. It is a pity, as his images (note: they are,for a good amount, static) are really beautiful and show his mastery over visual technique. Coming back to the content, it is very similar to his earlier shorts - ornithology, water bodies, flight, maps etc. He also refers to his own works many times and the film is aware of its own existence in relation to other works.