Let Me Fall
- Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson
- Writer: Baldvin Zophoníasson; Birgir Örn Steinarsson
- Producer: Júlíus Kemp; Ingvar Þórðarson
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This is the bleakest of the bleak.
Well, drug addiction is no laughing matter...unless you're off your face and don't give a month-of-sundays about those around you. Those unfortunates, the family, those friends, the collateral...caught in the cross-fire...until they have no choice other than to walk away.
From the opening scene, these lethal lesbians [together with their toxic love] care for absolutely no-one but themselves and their habit...and, only for each other, when it suits! It would be crazy to say Let Me Fall is an enjoyable film, it's almost unimaginable to even 'like' this film...not because it's a bad film - it most certainly is not bad...it's just so unflinchingly desolate.
Baldvin Zophoníasson takes no prisoners and pulls no punches whatsoever...the critique he delivers upon State and Church and Rehab and addicts and their chain of supply are damning and absolute. This is 'sensational' filmmaking...and, as sure as Hell, it is not pretty.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Drawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.
Cast & Characters
Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir as Magnea
Eyrún Björk Jakobsdóttir as Stella
Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir as Stella - older
Kristín Lea as Sponsor
Sólveig Arnarsdóttir as Jórunn
Sigurbjartur Atlason as Toni
Þorsteinn Bachmann as Hannes
Edda Björgvinsdóttir as Geðlæknir
Gunnar Bersi Björnsson as Man in rehab
Laufey Elíasdóttir as Helga eldri
Atli Oskar Fjalarsson as Atli rauði
Einar Gunn as Bangsi69
Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson as Erlingur Hafsteinn
Sólveig Guðmundsdóttir as Stjúpmóðir Magneu
Halldór Halldórsson as Lúkas