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Standing at a pivotal point in the Peter Greenaway filmography, poised between his earlier idiosyncratic short works and the unique pleasures of his post-Draughtsman's Contract oeuvre, The Falls might arguably be regarded as the most significant film of his prolific career. Shot as a fake documentary assembled from a dazzlingly inventive array of fictive elements, it takes the form of a directory detailing the selected case histories of those affected by the Violent Unknown Event (or VUE), a mysterious apocalyptic occurrence that has left a substantial section of the British public speaking invented languages, dreaming of water, and identifying themselves with the bird population. In 92 individual sections, Greenaway offers a witty and absurd survey of the symptoms experienced by all the sufferers whose surnames begin with the letters "Fall…".
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