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Falling review: Viggo Mortensen excels in heart-piercing drama • 5 min read The actor and director talks to Peter Travers about his newest film.Brendan Adam-Zwelling Get ready to discover a new side to Viggo Mortensen, a three-time Oscar nominee. The 62-year-old multi-talented actor stands out Falling, his directorial debut. The heart-piercing human drama displays all the traits that define Mortensen as an actor: strength, sensitivity and offbeat humor. Brendan Adam-Zwelling A scene from Falling. Mortensen, who also wrote, scored and co-produced Falling, excels as John Peterson, a gay man coping with a homophobic father plagued by dementia. The ornery old man, Willis, is played by veteran actor Lance Henriksen, who has starred in Aliens and played a vampire leader in Near Dark. Henriksen delivers the fullest and finest performance of his career. ....
Viggo Mortensen is a terrific actor with a wealth of memorable screen work to his credit. Unfortunately, his feature directorial debut, “Falling,” does not, er, fall into that category, though it’s not for lack of trying: He also wrote, starred in, produced and scored this problematic film. It’s a grim, oddly misguided attempt to tell the story of the fractious relationship between a gay airline pilot, John (Mortensen), and his thoroughly insufferable dad, Willis (Lance Henriksen), as the obstreperous senior sinks into dementia. Set, for some reason, in 2009, the film finds upstate New York farmer Willis visiting John and his husband, Eric (Terry Chen), who’s a nurse, and their adopted daughter, Mönica (Gabby Velis), in Los Angeles. John wants Willis, who can no longer properly take care of himself, to move nearby, though that’s got disaster written all over it as does most everything else that involves the black-hearted bigot. ....
Falling Movie Review Director: Viggo Mortensen Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 1/23/21 Opens: February 5, 2021 This is one of those rare movies that have their writers sitting in the director’s chair as well, taking a major role, even playing some chords on the piano to punctuate the difficulty of his life. In other words, “Falling” has more than a touch of autobiography: Mortensen imaging and re-imaging his life under the rule of his father who, having looked at the baby he helped create greeting him not with “say dadda” but “I’m sorry I brought you into this world. To die.” We can only wonder how the little one was able not only to survive his daddy’s acerbic personality but why this baby, later on in life, would cater to almost every whim of the dad whose temper could burst forth at any time and whose progressive dementia would turn him into a fierce, cantankerous fool who not only brought a baby into the word to die but would regularly desc ....