Watch Trailer For Falling Viggo Mortensen’s Directorial Feature Debut
You don’t need reminding how decimating Covid-19 has been to everyone worldwide. It’s cancelled life and in film terms prevented many debut feature films debuting on the grand stage of film festivals. One of those films is Falling starring and directed by Viggo Mortensen along side Lance Henrikson.
Over the weekend French distributor Metropolitan Films released an International trailer for the indie drama. The film made it’s World Premiere at Sundance Film Festival at the start of 2020. However the film festivals including Cannes which was selected for was cancelled.
The film tells the story of John (Mortensen) who lives in Los Angels with his husband and adopted children. He is forced to fly back to his old home town to look after his raging homophobic father (Henrikson), who has dementia. He must convince him to move closer to him to look after him, the film follows John’s long hard relationship with his father.
There is still a couple of Film Festivals like Toronto (TIFF) still going ahead, giving the film a chance to shine.
John (Viggo Mortensen) lives in California with his partner Eric (Terry Chen) and their adopted daughter Mónica (Gabby Velis), far from the conservative rural life he left years ago. His father, Willis (Lance Henriksen), a stubborn man from a bygone era, now lives alone on the isolated farm where John grew up.
With Willis’s mind fading, John takes it with him west, in the hope that he and his sister Sarah (Laura Linney) can find the old man a home closer to home. But their good intentions come up against the absolute refusal of Willis, who does not want to change anything in his way of life …
The film co-stars Sverrir Gudnason, Laura Linney, Hannah Gross, and David Cronenberg. There is no UK, Irish or U.S release date for the film announced just yet, however in France it has a 4th November release date.
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