Sound of Falling - Review

Too Bad You'll Never Know When You're at Your Happiest.

Review written by Jack Aling

Sound of Falling is directed by Mascha Schilinski and written by Mascha Schilinski & Louise Peter.

Four adolescent girls each spend their youth in the same farmhouse over the last century. Though separated by decades, resonances between their lives emerge: their desires and distress, secrets and truths, encounters with another's gaze and defiant gaze in return.

A foreboding look into the past, following different generations living in the same space. But this isn't an uplifting celebration of life; it's an obsession with death.

Muted colours and raucous sound design overwhelm the senses for Mascha Schilinski's disorientating journey through time that watches on from a distance with an almost voyeuristic lens.

Our verdict: 4 out of 5 stars.

Sound of Falling arrives in UK Cinemas March 6th 2026

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