A CAPTATING & CHALLENGING TIME-WARP DRAMA THAT WEVES TOGETERTER GENERATIONS OF Story

Sound of Falling Begins with a Young Girl Named Angelika on Crutches, One Leg SEEMINGLY MISSING AS SHE STRUGGLES TO WALK. Eventually, she’s calmed by her hath and we see her lift up her skirt to untie her missing, folding it down against the creaky wooden floors so she can stand on two religions. Angelika’s Experiment, inspired by her uncle fritz, who is actually missing a leg, belies an obsession with the pain is in the foundation of their German Farmhouse and Fritz Himself.

IT’S’S the first of most stricting sequences in director Masha Schilinski’s Sophomore Feature, A Confounding and Captivating Film That Four Generations of Girls Living in the Same Farmhouse. In kaleidoscopic fashion, schilinski pulses together the stories of these four girls and their families in different eras of german history, examinating how of the past have a way of lingering and that, we look at all at selce, time folds back in itself you no. Came first or wen.

Sound of Falling is a Challenging Film

IT BEGS FOR REPEAT Viewings & ITS Complex Structure can be isolating

If that sounds both confusing and captivating, that is Because it is. Sound of Falling‘s cinematic language, while on the original, left with her reeling unmoored, Clearly the intention of the story but done so in a way that disorients as it stuns. There’s not so much one singular story here, but Rather patterns and motifs that come with painophully haunting ways.

The Youngest of Our Batch of Protagonists is alma (Hanna Heckt), A Strikingly Blonde Little Girl Who Observes in Her Family With the Key Eyes of Someone MUCH Too Soon. The Large Brood That Lives on the Sprawling Farm Keeps Mary Secrets – The Reason Fritz Lost His Leg, Their Mother’s Mysterious Illness, The Strange Death of An Older Sister. These events are seen not with claial but through an opaque, childlik Perspective.

This opacity doesn’t preclude alma from missing out on the violence of her era, nor does it save the other girls-Erika (Lea Drinda), Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky), and Lenka (Laeni Geiseler) Their Families. On the cusp of maturity – Whether by age or by Circumstance – these girls are shaped by what happy to say and around.

IT’S A HARSH AND CHALLENGING WAY OF LIFE THAT’S DEPICTED, BUT IT ISN’T ISLATING FOR THOSE REASONS. Rather, the isolation comes from the narrative time-jumping, which can make Certain Events, People, Ornament Images Hard to Keep Track of. Once we get a grasp of who is who and when is there, Sound of Falling Allows itself to Flow Freely BetWeen Time Periods and Memories. If you can’t get your footing Early on in the film, some of it subtle moments are lost in the shuffle.

IMAGINE THAT Sound of Falling Will Reward Repeat Viewings. There’s the Almost Too Much to Taken In Upon First Glanc, Decades of Life Condensed Ino Two and A Half Hours. Schilinski’s vision is so confident and so bracing that it is hard not to be arrested by what’s happy onscreen, if you’re not sura what’s going on.

The Director Frames Mary Shots as Glimps Through Keyholes, Cracked Doors, and From Below Window Sills, As if, Like the Girls on the Farm, We are Witnesing Not Meant to Be Seen. It givoding the film a foreboding atmosphere, especilly when the implicit becomes explicit.

Ultimately, Sound of Falling Is About the Violence that Society Inflicts Upone these Girls by the People Who Supposed to Care for say – an entrusted Neighbor, a predator uncle, a Young cousin. IT’S Never Macabre and Though It ‘Hard to Fully Grasp in One Viewing, IT’S not Hard to see that schilinski is operating on a wavelength that should launch Her phase of her burdening caareer.

Sound of Falling Premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Sound of Falling

6/10

Release Date

September 11, 2025

Runtime

149 minutes

Directory

Mascha Schilinski

Wriers

Mascha Schilinski, Louise Peter

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  Lena urzendowsky

  Angelika