Blue Cheng-Lung Lan

Kang-i Lee

Fang Wan

Ming-Tai Wang

Alan is trapped in three absurd relationships. His girlfriend Angel is deeply in love with him but Alan&apos;s detachment keeps letting her down and pushes her to a nervous breakdown. Belle has just fled from a broken marriage and rent...

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Falling... In Love (2005)

&quot;Falling... In Love&quot; revolve around torn relationships and the emotionally damaged human beings they bring with them. It&apos;s frustration, hope, anger, sex, deceit, despair - and small big city apartments. Everything played out in a very appealing, restrained fashion. 

What director Wang showed glimpses of in his debut &quot;Brave 20&quot; feels already - in this, his second movie - completely developed. The acting is great and the cinematography by Chin Ting-Chang is simply brilliant (we&apos;re talking in the league of Chris Doyle here)! The fact is that it is impossible to get a fair picture of &quot;Falling... In Love&quot; if one doesn&apos;t speak more in detail about the visual. The colour range is fantastic. The film bathe in piercing hues of green, yellow and red, captured with a well-manoeuvred hand-held camera. Another thing which deeply impressed me is the creative work with extremely short depth in the sharpness of the photography and the way characters are sometimes out of focus, way off the traditional way of shooting such scenes. This give the pictorial language a very original expression. 

Also, it&apos;s impossible not to think of another Taiwanese film when seeing &quot;Falling... In Love, namely Hou Hsiao-Hsien&apos;s &quot;Millennium Mambo&quot;, as that one also moves from Taipei to a snowy Hokkaido.

"Falling... In Love" revolve around torn relationships and the emotionally damaged human beings they bring with them. It's frustration, hope, anger, sex, deceit, despair - and small big city apartments. Everything played out in a very appealing, restrained fashion. 

What director Wang showed glimpses of in his debut "Brave 20" feels already - in this, his second movie - completely developed. The acting is great and the cinematography by Chin Ting-Chang is simply brilliant (we're talking in the league of Chris Doyle here)! The fact is that it is impossible to get a fair picture of "Falling... In Love" if one doesn't speak more in detail about the visual. The colour range is fantastic. The film bathe in piercing hues of green, yellow and red, captured with a well-manoeuvred hand-held camera. Another thing which deeply impressed me is the creative work with extremely short depth in the sharpness of the photography and the way characters are sometimes out of focus, way off the traditional way of shooting such scenes. This give the pictorial language a very original expression. 

Also, it's impossible not to think of another Taiwanese film when seeing "Falling... In Love, namely Hou Hsiao-Hsien's "Millennium Mambo", as that one also moves from Taipei to a snowy Hokkaido.

Alan is trapped in three absurd relationships. His girlfriend Angel is deeply in love with him but Alan's detachment keeps letting her down and pushes her to a nervous breakdown. Belle has just fled from a broken marriage and rents the room next to Angel's; she also happens to have been a young love of Alan's, who Alan has not forgotten. Madame, 40 years old, spends her life waiting for her mafia boyfriend to come back, until one day Alan shows up and caresses her lonely heart...With a bold attempt to use cross processing procedure on colour reversal film stock, FALLING...IN LOVE beautifully unfolds these distorted and tangled relationships.

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