"Their traumas echo off each other in a delicately crafted memory piece that, with cinematographer Fabian Gamper and editor Evelyn Rack and sound designer Billie Mind, acquires the hypnotic pull of a horror picture - like staring into a daguerreotype of the dead for too long. And it's that very sort of image Schilinski and her co-writer Louise Peter discovered when entering the abandoned farm that would become the film's shooting location and the film's central character."
"Mascha Schilinski arrived in Cannes as a fully formed filmmaker with " Sound of Falling," technically her second feature after her student film, "Dark Blue Girl," which she made at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Her first film was "supposed to be released in the United States, but the film school couldn't handle [the release], and they were the producer, and they were not used to this [idea] that there is an interest from the U.S.," Schilinski said."
Mascha Schilinski's Sound of Falling follows four generations of women living on the same Northern German farm from the early 1900s to the present, each bearing trauma from patriarchal violence, self-doubt, and forced sexual awakening. The central characters Alma, Erika, Angelika, and Lenka embody inherited wounds and a pervasive death wish. Cinematography, editing, and layered sound design create a hypnotic, memory-like horror atmosphere. The abandoned farm served as both shooting location and central character. The film won the Jury Prize at Cannes, represents Germany in the international feature Oscar race, and opens on MUBI in January.
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