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25-05-2025
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Cannes 2025 Winners: Jafar Panahi, Mascha Schilinski & Oliver Laxe Rule The Night I N18G
The 78th edition of the Cannes film festival ended on a high note on Saturday. From Bollywood celebs spreading glam, to Hollywood celebs fighting it out on the red carpet, Cannes 2025 saw a variety of emotions on display. However, it was the winners who stole the biggest limelight. Right from Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or win, to Mascha Schilinski's Jury Prize win, Cannes once again celebrated the best in global cinema. Watch this video for all the details. bollywood news | entertainment news live | latest bollywood news | bollywood | news18 | n18oc_moviesLiked the video? Please press the thumbs up icon and leave a comment. Subscribe to Showsha YouTube channel and never miss a video: / showshaindia Follow Showsha on Instagram: / showsha_ Follow Showsha on Facebook: / showsha Follow Showsha on X: Showsha on Snapchat: / 6yeotzey More entertainment and lifestyle news and updates on:
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25-05-2025
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‘Sound of Falling' Review: Four Generations of German Girls Suffer the Same Growing Pains in Mascha Schilinski's Mesmerizing Stunner
Unfolding like 100 years of home video footage that were shot by the family ghosts, Mascha Schilinski's rich and mesmeric 'Sound of Falling' glimpses four generation of young women as they live, die, and suffuse their memories into the walls of a rural farmhouse in the north German region of Altmark. In the 1940s, after some of the local boys are maimed by their parents in order to avoid fighting Hitler's war, teenage Erika (Lea Drinda) hobbles through the halls with one of her tied legs up in string, eager to know what losing a limb might feel like. Unbeknownst to her, cherubic little Alma (Hanna Heckt) expressed a similar curiosity some 30 years earlier when she played dead on the parlor room couch, posing in the same position that her late grandmother's corpse had been placed for a post-mortem daugerreotype. More from IndieWire Here's How to Find Work When Entertainment Jobs Are Scarce Documentarian Sacha Jenkins Has Died: 'Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues' Filmmaker Started as a Journalist And yet, coming of age in the German Democratic Republic of the 1980s, Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky) might think she's inventing her girlish impulse towards self-negation when she fantasizes about lying down in front of her father's tank-sized land imprinter as it mulches her body into the earth, just as Lenka (Laeni Geiseler) — living in our present — wonders if she's the first person to be looked at in a way that burns under her skin. We rarely see these characters overlap in a literal sense, and their specific relationships to one another remain hard to define (it would take a professional arborist to untangle the roots of this movie's family tree, at least on first watch), but 'Sound of Falling' is deeply attuned to the echoes between them. Somehow both hyper-subjective and hauntingly disembodied all at once, Schilinski's recursive second feature floats through the decades like an errant thought hoping to find someone who might recognize it as one of their own. The film lopes forwards and backwards in time without notice or warning, Fabian Gamper's camera often peering through keyholes and floorboards in order to reconcile the tunnel vision of being alive with a quietly Teutonic awe at the vastness of having lived. Some eye-level shots are clearly tethered to the perspective of a certain character, while others seem to stem from the POV of an invisible spirit crouching next to them, as if assigning physical dimension to the third-person of our remembered pasts. Intimate and infinite in equal measure, the movie's freeform structure and emotional tonality might evoke everything from 'The Hours' and 'The Virgin Suicides' to Robert Zemeckis' 'Here,' and Charli XCX's 'Girl, so confusing' (why not), but its style found me returning to Edward Yang's magnificent 'Yi Yi' as the most immediate point of reference. Specifically, the character of eight-year-old Yang-Yang, who photographs the backs of people's heads in order to show them the parts of themselves they can't see on their own. 'You always see things from the outside, but never yourself,' one of Schilinski's characters muses in a snippet of the diaristic voiceover that holds this film together. She rues the fact that blushing externalizes the exact emotion that someone is trying to hide, just as Angelika — who's cannonballing into her sexuality, and rumored to be sleeping with her uncle — resents that she can will her legs to move, but not her heart to stop beating. Do our brains flip the world rightside up, or do they force us to see it upside down? 'Sound of Falling' isn't disinterested in personal drama, but that drama is reliably sublimated into the perspective through which it's experienced. So tenderly in touch with the shared but unspoken traumas that are visited upon her cast of young women, Schilinski mines tremendous sorrow from the secret poetics of girlhood; she weaponizes cinema's ability to access the deepest interiors of human feeling, and swirls her characters together in a way that tortures them for their subjectivity. The more intimately we come to understand the hurt and heartache that Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka all experience in their own ways, the more it kills us that they aren't able to commiserate with each other (the film's temporal porousness is heightened by its glancing attention to various social and political borders, some of which are more easily crossed than others). Nothing is new in this world, but pain turns us all into pioneers. If only the film's characters had the chance to compare notes, perhaps they might not share the same affinity for self-erasure. But they do feel one another (intangibly, the way that an amputee might scratch at a phantom limb), and the 150-minute 'Sound of Falling' is held aloft by its compelling attention to sense memory. As one of the girls puts it: 'It's funny how something can hurt that's no longer there,' and that hurt accrues an ethereal power of its own as Schilinski doubles back to flesh it out. Her film is piloted by sense memory, its story (a lot) less concerned with conflict or incident than it is with the buzz of a housefly, the bite of a fish, or the beat of that one pop song that Lenka and her only friend listen to all summer long. Brittle silences give way to an ominous hum, and occasionally to the fuzz of a record needle in search of the groove it needs to know its purpose. It's the perfect soundtrack for a reverie that spins in smaller and smaller circles until its attention grows focused enough to observe a single mote of sublime transcendence — and to defy the gravity that's been accumulated from almost 100 years of solitude. 'It's too bad you never know when you're at your happiest,' one of the girls laments, and it's true that none of these characters may ever be able to contextualize their emotions with the perspective necessary to survive them. But Schilinski's arrestingly prismatic film — so hazy and dense with detail that it feels almost impossible to fully absorb the first time through — keeps sloshing its way through the years until those blind spots begin to seem revelatory in their own right. These girls can only see so much of themselves on their own, but 'Sound of Falling' so vividly renders the blank space between them that it comes to feel like a lucid window into the stuff of our world that only the movies could ever hope to show us. 'Sound of Falling' premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It is currently seeking U.S. distribution. Want to stay up to date on IndieWire's film and critical thoughts? to our newly launched newsletter, In Review by David Ehrlich, in which our Chief Film Critic and Head Reviews Editor rounds up the best new reviews and streaming picks along with some exclusive musings — all only available to subscribers. Best of IndieWire The 25 Best Alfred Hitchcock Movies, Ranked Every IndieWire TV Review from 2020, Ranked by Grade from Best to Worst
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25-05-2025
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‘Sound of Falling' First Look: Mascha Schilinski's Cannes Premiere Is an Ode to the Generational Ghosts of Girlhood — Watch
Mascha Schilinski, despite having helmed 'The Daughter' while in grad school, is making a statement: Her true feature film debut is upcoming Cannes release 'Sound of Falling,' which already has critics deeming Schilinski as the next voice of atmospheric female angst. 'Sound of Falling' will premiere in competition at Cannes, with mk2 handling sales. The film centers on four generations of girls — Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka — who each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. The evolution across a century of which each family member considers to be home during their respective teen years is threaded by uncanny parallelisms that lead to the question: Can memories can be inherited, repeated, and ultimately, relived? More from IndieWire AMC Will Soon Offer Half-Off Pricing on Wednesdays, but Other Theaters Won't Follow Suit Just Yet Max Is Becoming HBO Max (Again) Schilinski cowrote the film with Louise Peter after spending a summer on a once-abandoned farm in the Altmark region between Berlin and Hamburg, where the film was later set. The duo found an old photograph on the property, showing three women looking directly into the camera. As Schilinski said in a press note for 'Sound of Falling,' the image inspired the premise of the film. '[It was as though] these women were breaking the fourth wall and looking directly at us from the past. That basically gave us the atmosphere that runs through the whole movie,' Schilinski said. 'We were interested in the simultaneity of time levels, that in the same place one person does something very mundane and the other perhaps has an existential, life-changing experience.' Schilinski added that the film is 'about the act of remembering itself, about how perception and memory work' especially through subjective points of view and the bodily remnants of inherited dissassociative trauma. 'For me, there is always the uncertainty that you can never be sure whether something really happened like this and where dreams and reality intertwine,' she said. Fabian Gamper is to thank for the hazy lush cinematography style. The film was shot over 34 days on location. 'In many ways, I look at 'Sound of Falling' as my debut film. While I had some experience through my previous project 'The Daughter,' that film was the final project in my third year at the film academy, and it wasn't supposed to be a feature,' Schilinski said. 'The limitations we had to work with [on 'Sound of Falling'] forced us all to use the greatest possible precision and concentration. I had to completely follow my intuition.' 'Sound of Falling' premieres as a sales title from mk2 at Cannes. Check out a clip of the feature below. Best of IndieWire Guillermo del Toro's Favorite Movies: 56 Films the Director Wants You to See 'Song of the South': 14 Things to Know About Disney's Most Controversial Movie The 55 Best LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now
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22-05-2025
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Mubi Buys Mascha Schilinski's Cannes Competition Film ‘Sound of Falling' for U.S., U.K., Ireland, Turkey and India (EXCLUSIVE)
Mubi has bought Mascha Schilinski's Cannes competition film 'Sound of Falling' for the U.S. and a string of international territories, Variety has learned. Besides the U.S. Mubi has taken 'Sound of Falling' for the U.K., Ireland, Turkey and India. More from Variety Mubi Acquires Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent' for U.K., India and Latin America Mubi Buys Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson's 'Die My Love' in $24 Million Cannes Deal 'Sound of Falling' Review: Shattering, Century-Spanning Tapestry of Female Unrest Shoots Mascha Schilinski Into the Big Leagues The drama, which world premiered last week to rave reviews, marks Schilinski's follow-up to her 2017 debut 'Dark Blue Girl.' 'Mubi is an oasis for everyone who loves cinema,' said Schilinski in a statement. 'Here arthouse classics stand shoulder to shoulder with new exciting cinema as well as little movie gems that we would otherwise not get to see. We are very happy that 'Sound of Falling' is now part of Mubi's movie family,' she added. 'I accompanied and protected the movie until the last moment. Now it was allowed to celebrate its world premiere in competition at the Festival de Cannes. I wish 'Sounf of Falling' an exciting journey out into the world under the Mubi,' the director continued. Commented Fionnuala Jamison, managing director of MK2 Films: 'Working with Mubi always feels less like closing a deal and more like continuing a conversation. We share a deep respect for cinema in all its forms, and this latest collaboration is another step in a relationship built on mutual curiosity and creative trust.' MK2 is representing 'Sound of Falling' globally. Variety's Guy Lodge hailed the movie as a 'shattering' epic that sends its director 'into the big leagues' with an 'astonishingly poised and ambitious second feature.' It's the latest in a string of acquisitions scored by Mubi at Cannes. The company has also bought Kleber Mendonça Filho's 'The Secret Agent' for North America, Latin America (excluding Brazil), the U.K., Ireland and India. The company produced 'The Mastermind' and has retained several territories for the film and, before the festival began, bought rights for the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, Turkey and India to Joachim Trier's 'Sentimental Value,' which on Wednesday received a huge 15-minute standing ovation. During the festival, Mubi also snapped up multiple rights — including the U.S. — for Lynne Ramsey's 'Die My Love,' and later Latin American and Indian rights to Julia Ducournau's genre-hopping drama 'Alpha.' Best of Variety All the Godzilla Movies Ranked Final Oscar Predictions: International Feature – United Kingdom to Win Its First Statuette With 'The Zone of Interest' 'Game of Thrones' Filming Locations in Northern Ireland to Open as Tourist Attractions
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21-05-2025
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Cannes: Competition Film ‘Sound of Falling' Gets Rave Reviews, Tepid Ovation
Sound of Falling, the second feature from 41-year-old German filmmaker Mascha Schilinski, had its world premiere on Wednesday afternoon at the Grand Théâtre Lumière as part of the Cannes Film Festival, where it is playing in competition, and was greeted with a four-minute standing ovation. Co-written with Louise Peter, the German-language drama follows four girls — Alma (Hanna Heckt), Erika (Lea Drinda), Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky) and Lenka (Laeni Geiseler) — who live, at different points over the course of a century, on the same farm in northern Germany. More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Sound of Falling' Review: A Haunting Meditation on Womanhood and Rural Strife That Heralds the Arrival of a Bold New Talent 'Mission: Impossible' Director Christopher McQuarrie Was Ready to Quit the Business When He Met Tom Cruise Cannes Film Market, CES Join Forces for Film Innovation Award Originally titled The Doctor Says I'll Be Alright, But I'm Feelin' Blue, the two-and-a-half hour film is the product of a 34-day shoot. It is still seeking U.S. distribution, and interest in it amongst top-tier distributors is said to be strong. The Hollywood Reporter's review raves that Sound of Falling 'resembles nothing you've quite seen before, making you question the very notion of what a movie can be,' and further describes the film as 'a transfixing chronicle' and 'cinematic tone poem,' likening it to Terrence Malick's 2011 Palme d'Or winner-turned-best picture Oscar nominee The Tree of Life, 'although this is Malick by way of Jane Campion and Michael Haneke.' Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
