The Texture of Falling

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Hermione S Apr 8, 2019 If you're looking for something steamy to watch on a Saturday night, it's-a one spicy baby! Kidding aside, while this movie is quite sexy, it's so much more than that. Director (and lead actor!) Maria Allred set out with a bold vision and the result is a tense, smart and stylish film that will keep you simultaneously confused and intrigued all the way through. This film is very straightforward on the surface, seemingly intentionally so, and the viewer slowly falls into it's narrative trap before they realize it. It plays with the viewer and their assumed expectations of standard storytelling in a very fun way. When the film ended, I sat there for a moment and said to myself, "Damn. She got me." I'm really looking forward to what Maria Allred cooks up next. She's a filmmaker worth putting on your radar. See more

George W Apr 3, 2019 From the beginning, the Texture of Falling pulls you in with its cinematography, sound design and beautiful details that create a world of its own. Maria Allred is a true talent and auteur with her writing and directing. Her sense of style falls somewhere between David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick. The beautiful Northwest city of Portland provides the perfect backdrop to the story as it portrays the opposite of what lies ahead for its ensemble cast of characters. Testing the boundaries of relationships and sexuality, Allred shows us just how far people are willing to go to feel a spark of sensation that can take control over their lives. The Texture of Falling is a dark visual poem that captivates the chaos, fantasy and passion of its characters. See more

Luke S Mar 21, 2019 The Texture of Falling is a psychological drama about two different women living seemingly parallel lives. Both women have torrid affairs and seem to test the boundaries of how far they are willing to push themselves, their sex lives, and their relationships. The entire time we feel that these people's lives are deeply interconnected, but we yearn to figure out how and why. The Texture of Falling is a very sexy film. It's tough to pull off truly sexy scenes and storylines in indie films, but The Texture of Falling and its team very much succeed in this pursuit. These scenes feel authentic, necessary for the story, and in no way exploitative. One of the couples also explores BDSM and this film tackles it in such a way that it feels like the good version of 50 Shades of Grey. Technically, The Texture of Falling excels particularly in its visuals, score, and overall tone. The music is great, while the cinematography beautifully captures Portland in the most gorgeous ways possible. Overall, Maria Allred (who seemingly contributes in just about every department!) and her team achieve a very nice lyrical feel for much of the film. I particularly enjoyed some moments in the film that could have been their own music video, thriving on just beautiful imagery and excellent music. If you'll notice, the film has a spectacular number of IMDB ratings for an indie film that is just now being released on VOD, and the film still maintains a very high star average which is no easy feat. This is obviously a testament to the quality of the film, and I'd like to also say that I personally recommend The Texture of Falling to anyone looking for a sexy psychological drama! See more

Anakin W Mar 17, 2019 If one perceives a constant but tactile connectivity running through seemingly disparate events in life, let's stipulate that's it's tough sledding to find singular pieces of art reflective of that vague sense of intertwined totality. Yet somehow, writer/director Maria Allred has captured that exact zeitgeist in her butterfly net, and has installed it in spades in the wonderfully crafted The Texture of Falling. Set in Portland, this is a powerfully visual film which casts its spell from the fringes inward, as Allred's use of imagery slowly builds the connective tissue between psychology and sexuality (among other islands) with terrific circle-of-life aplomb. Audiences demanding chronological storytelling need not apply, as The Texture of Falling instead works the sinewy outer margins, with Allred very intentionally throwing us into the churn by dissolving our expectations around linear-metered presentation. The film offers up two couples: Louisa (Julie Webb) is an aspiring filmmaker attempting to actualize her career with a fledgling first project. Her sex life is enveloped by an affair with married concert musician Luke (Patrick D. Green), who has no aspirations for commitment. Somewhere else in the world, we find Sylvia - a strikingly sensual blonde played by Allred herself - having an affair with the married Michael (Benjamin Farmer), who finds himself ripe for the exploration of BDSM. In that sense, there's some smart opportunism to Allred's filmmaking, as The Texture of Falling finds a legit market space by presenting the psychological emotionalism of BDSM as a defining element, yet one which was so embarrassingly absent from Fifty Shades of Grey. It's in the film's wonderfully conceived culmination where Allred moves The Texture of Falling from a tapestry of fragments to the wholly realized vision we then realize she's set us up for all along. A clarity arrives, and it leaves us with the remarkable feeling that we've just become fluent in what was once just a beautifully-heard language. In the end, The Texture of Falling somehow delivers on its own massive ambition to decode the fascinating by offering a definition for things arguably impossible to define. See more

Han R Jun 4, 2018 A visually stunning and thought provoking film. The cinematography and visuals were magnificent and truly shows testament to the film makers' vision. The characters are marvelously multidimensional and delicious in their occasional amorality. An extremely original and twisty story line, I found myself trying to guess the outcome and was pleasantly surprised that I did not see what was coming at the finale. After a few different viewings, I was still finding morsels of intrigue that I did not see the first time around. Its a fantastically unique film that I definitely recommend, especially to those of artistic temperament. See more

Leia W Jun 2, 2018 The Texture of Falling is a bizarre and controversial film that left me immediately wanting to watch it again. It unravels an intricate web of a plot that is incredibly meta, and left me thinking about things on a quantum level. It taps into different aspects of sexuality and relationship processes, crafted in a way that reveals layers I never would have seen coming. It's ability to both tap into the parts of my psyche that are curious sexually, while triggering me too, it left me feeling expanded. I look forward to watching it again with an understanding of it's workings to pick up on the intricate subtleties that surely await. I can't wait to see what comes next from Maria Allred! See more

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