Recommended for: GCSE, AS/A Level Art & Design, Fashion & Textiles studies.
Capacity: 158 places
Alison Welsh, Programme Leader, Fashion at Manchester Metropolitan University, will offer a short introduction to The Fall and host a post-screening discussion that will cover such topics as the film’s extensive use of primary colours, motifs borrowed from architecture and landscape, and the use of fashion as a visual metaphor. Includes a full screening of The Fall.
Led by Alison Welsh, Programme Leader, Fashion at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Screening: The Fall 15
Dir Tarsem Singh / USA 2006 / 117 mins
Award-winning music video, commercial and film director Tarsem Singh followed up his astonishing debut The Cell with this sumptuous fantasy world of exotic bandits, evil tyrants, dream-like palaces and breathtaking landscapes shot on location in 18 countries around the world. Languishing in a hospital, Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is a broken man: unable to walk after a fall from a horse, his heart is also broken after his girlfriend ran off with another man. Ready to end his life, Roy befriends five-year-old fellow patient Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) with the goal of persuading her to steal a fatal dose of morphine pills. To convince her Roy launches into a story that fuses patients and staff with imagined personas and exotic lands.