The Fall (Restored cut)
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Winner of the Best Film Award, 2007 Sitges Film Festival
Los Angeles, 1920s: a little girl with a broken arm meets a stuntman who was injured during a film shoot. Through the simple magic of words and imagination, he draws her into an epic and flamboyant tale. A true star director in the world of music videos and advertising, Tarsem Singh offers here a highly personal film, a dazzling transposition of his visual universe with surrealist touches. Shot in 24 countries, The Fall has all the elements of a cult film!
Tarsem Singh
Tarsem Singh is an Indian director who has worked on films, music videos, and commercials. He studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he met future film directors Michael Bay and Zack Snyder. Singh acted in their student films. He began his career by directing music videos, including R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion, for which he won Best Music Video, Short Form at the 1992 Grammy Awards. He has directed commercials for brands such as Nike, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi, for which he directed one of their most elaborate commercials ever, combining a gladiator theme with Queen's We Will Rock You. He made his feature film directorial debut with The Cell (2000), starring Jennifer Lopez. His second film, The Fall, debuted at the 2006 TIFF. He also directed an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story of Snow White, called Mirror Mirror (2012). His 2023 film Dear Jassi premiered at the 2023 TIFF, where it won the Platform Prize.
