Falling (2020 film)


Falling is a 2020 drama film written and directed by Viggo Mortensen in his feature directorial debut. The film stars Mortensen as John Peterson, a gay man whose conservative and homophobic father Willis starts to exhibit symptoms of dementia, forcing him to sell the family farm and move to Los Angeles to live with John and his husband Eric.
The film's cast also includes Sverrir Gudnason, Laura Linney, Hannah Gross and David Cronenberg.
It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2020.

Cast

In October 2018, it was announced Viggo Mortensen would star in the film, alongside Lance Henriksen, Sverrir Gudnason, and directing from a screenplay he wrote. Mortensen and Daniel Bekerman will serve as producers on the film under their Scythia Films banner. In March 2019, Laura Linney, Hannah Gross and Terry Chen joined the cast of the film.
Mortensen had not originally intended to play the lead role in the film himself, but found that since there were virtually no other major stars in the cast, committing to act in the film was the only way he was able to secure production funding.

Filming

began in March 2019.

Release

It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 31, 2020. It will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2020.