Viggo Mortensen's 'Falling' Finds Empathy for the Unredeemable Directed by Viggo Mortensen Starring Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henricksen, Laura Linney 6 "I'm sorry that I brought you into this world so you could die." A father whispering that to his son is the first signpost of trouble to come in Falling, the new film from Viggo Mortensen as writer and director. A mostly prosaic recollection of 1950s simplicity is given a dark current, one that reverberates in the present, where the father, played by Lance Henricksen, is struggling with dementia as his son, Mortensen, copes not only with this but also with decades of his dad's toxic behaviour.