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ReviewSound of Falling movie review: Cannes Jury Prize winner is a beautiful tale of trauma
The lives of four women in different eras on one farm are intertwined with haunting narratives of trauma and liberation in Sound of Falling
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By turns haunting and beguiling, Sound of Falling, which won the Jury Prize at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, observes the lives of four young women growing up during four distinct eras on the same German farm.
Director Mascha Schilinski employs a non-linear structure to shift between their stories, intertwining the lives of her inquisitive heroines into a quietly profound meditation on the plight of women over the past century.
Despite spanning more than a century of German history, Sound of Falling unspools entirely within a farmstead in the Altmark region, which fell within the borders of East Germany after World War II.
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