#the falling

The Falling is like a greatest hits collection of semi-lesbianism in film.  There’s a mysterious “what’s happening to these girls” disease and lounging about on a hillside like some sort of Picnic At Hanging Rock.  There’s hints of general boarding school lesbianism like some sort of Madchen in Uniform.  Or Lost and Delirious.  OrTherese and Isabelle.  OrCracks.  OrOlivia.  OrTanner Hall.  There’s an obsessive and co-dependent relationship between two teenage girls ending in tragedy like some sort of Heavenly Creatures orMy Summer of Love.  And there’s a dead girl with ambiguous sexuality like… well, most movies with girls who aren’t totally straight.

Florence Pugh is an English actress from Oxford. She made her professional acting debut in the mystery film The Falling (2014) and gained recognition for her portrayal of an unhappily married woman in the independent drama Lady Macbeth (2016). Her performance in the latter film won her an Independent Film Award for Best Actress. She received praise for her role in the miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018). In 2020 she starred in the Marvel film Black Widow.

Her breakthrough came in 2019, during which she received positive reviews for her portrayals of professional wrestler Paige in the biographical sports film ~ Fighting with My Family, playing an emotionally troubled woman in the folk horror film Midsommar, and portraying Amy March in the coming-of-age period film Little Women, the lattermost of which garnered her Academy Oscar Award.