Let Me Fall (2018) User Reviews

Great acting. Authentic portrayal.

[Morten_5 · 8/10 · 7 September 2018]

World premiere at 43rd Toronto International Film Festival - TIFF18.

Icelandic writer-director Baldvin Zophoníasson clearly has a talent for bringing out great performances from his actors. The commitment from Elín Sif Halldórsdottir, Eyrún Björk Jakobsdóttir and Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir is strikingly profound.

Enthralling and haunting

[snezhina-kovacheva · 9/10 · 9 July 2019]

Ill have visual flashbacks about the movie weeks later, saw it on my way to Iceland. Haunting visuals, devastating story, excellent acting. See it!

A realistic portrayal of addiction

[kriistjanm · 10/10 · 17 September 2018]

As a recovering addict, I think this movie is a realistic portrayal of the slippery slope and desperation that comes with one's journey through addiction.

With such fantastic acting, this is easily the best movie I have seen in a long time. A clear 10/10 for me.

Beautyful

[KimuraMan · 9/10 · 30 December 2019]

Realistic portrait of the drug scene in Iceland. Can be hard to watch like alot of these kind of movies. Good acting and directing one of the best movies from Iceland.

I had a really difficult time watching this!

[juanmuscle · 10/10 · 25 May 2022]

But I'm so glad I did! It took me like four to five viewings of stopping and rejoining the thing in order to finally finish it! But it was worth it! Only the ending destroyed me, would of been nice to have a happy ending alls I'm saying! Maybe at least give us the last thing she or we see is ol' girl suffering on the bed then we see her when she was younger holding hands with her lil' sister in a field walking or something.. damnz!

Addictive

[kosmasp · 8/10 · 18 June 2022]

Depending on who you get in contact with, who you let into your life (and your body, no pun intended), it will take your life into a certain trajectory. So your company is very important. Something you may have heard from your parents - something that parents in general like to say. And something kids do not always take fully into account.

This is a case of a coming of age girl and her downward spiral into a world, she should not be in contact with. The way it is portrayed here, is quite realistic. Not just the addiction part, but how it evolves. Because things do not happen from one moment to the next.

Really well played, maybe a bit too long for some, but very important and with a message everyone can get behind with. Not an easy watch, especially when violence comes into play (forced and brutal, though not too explicit - which I think is the right choice) ... it can mess with your head.

A whole other perspective on Iceland

[evening1 · 6/10 · 20 January 2024]

Forget sparkling arctic waters and awe-inspiring lavascapes -- here we explore the terrain of addictive despair in the Land of Fire and Ice.

Magnea (Elín Hall) would seem to have it all -- physical beauty, loving parents, and a comfortable home in one of the most dazzling places on earth.

Still, the Reykjavík 15-year-old falls prey to every manner of drug, drops out of school, and tempts death on a daily basis. In flash-forwards, we get to know her as a haggard and abused junkie (Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir) who has never outraced her demons.

Along the way, we observe that Magnea destroys the lives of her parents along with her own. They can never rest, not knowing where she is for days on end, or with whom. And the people in Magnea's world -- you wouldn't want to meet them in a dark fjord. Þorsteinn Bachmann does particularly well as her patient and caring dad. He wants to help, but doesn't know how. Icelandic cinema often spotlights the psychological gulf between parents and their offspring, and this film perfectly captures that dynamic.

My love of Iceland and its language led me to "Lof mér að falla," and it offers opportunities to glean snippets of the mother tongue. As previous reviewers have noted, this is quite hard to watch in parts. And what's with the side jaunt to Rio? Makes no sense at all.

The movie leaves me wondering how to say "depressing" in Icelandic. Yep, Niðurdrepandi!

Too Hard yo watch but a Good movie

[mazconacasas · 7/10 · 3 September 2022]

I dont know how many stars i'd give to this film. I watched it a few months ago and I still remember some scenes, the light the pale filternof everything, the darkness ràting the little light left... To me this is like a nightmare and to think it is a true story it makes it worse. The film makes you feel all this despair and hopelessness, so it achieves the porpouse of cinema, which is to drive your emotions. For that I would give it a 10, but in a movie I need balance, some resting between the hard and painful sequences, and in this case i haven't been able even to take a breath at any shot. Then, 7 stars for all these reason would be fair.

Intervention Failure

[jhawanderson · 5/10 · 21 March 2022]

The movie was excellent in demonstrating the tragic events of the two addicts; and the inability of the parents and rehab facilities in Iceland to provide help.

"Interventions are an act of love.

1-87% of interventions result in admission into a treatment center.

2-No need for alcoholic/drug addicts to "hit bottom" before help.

3-No need to postpone help for alcoholic/addicts until they ask for help.

4-Most addicts who present for treatment have been "forced" to enter by circumstances.

5-In most cases those who enter treatment are still in denial.

6-Delusional thinking is "protected" by a rigid defense system, leading to denial.

7-enabling behaviors of others allows the progressive, chronic illness to continue.

8-An intervention is a process whereby all significant members of a person's family get together to present specific behavior in a loving acceptable way.

9-The experience for everyone involved can be a very powerful, life-changing and dramatic event.

10-Intervention includes: Selection of a team understanding that to do nothing is the worst thing they can do. Expressing deep-seated feelings is very healing for family members and/or codependents."