The Falls (1980) by Peter Greenaway
Sunday, October 16, 1983, 7:30 pm
Peter Greenaway’s The Falls
Peter Greenaway (who recently broke into the commercial market with The Draughtsman’s Contract) has been making films since 1966. Stylistically his work has drawn on British structural film, “case study” documentary, English social satire and absurdist humor. The Falls is a fictitious documentary of a post-VUE England (VUE = “Violent Unexplained Event”). The VUE affected 19 million people around the world who subsequently show symptoms such as partial mutation into birds and the development of personal languages. Written, directed, and edited by Greenaway with music by Michael Nyman and Brian Eno.