Nominated for Discovery Award for Best Debut Feature, Best Debut Director and Best Performance in a Debut
Q&A with Director Aylin Tezel
Kira and Ian, both on the run from their personal demons, meet on a winter weekend on the Isle of Skye. They connect suddenly and deeply. Returning to London they try to pursue their separate lives, but both have to face their past before they are ready to meet again.
When Kira escapes her complicated love life to a Scottish coastal town, she encounters Ian, a kindred spirit trying to escape from his own struggles with his family. While they develop a serious bond, their time together is short, and both return to London, unaware that they exist in the same setting. Will they be able to find each other again? And will they become the people they need to be before then?
Aylin Tazel’s film debut is a poetic, intimate examination of yearning. The piano score by Ben Lukas Boysen and Jon Hopkins sensitively reflects the pensive, melancholic mood of its characters, as their identities exist in transit.
The handheld camerawork by director of photography Julian Krubasik amplifies a sense of fragility as Kira and Ian open up to one another. Long shots of the rugged, remote, snowy landscape of Skye create a sense of freedom, where the Kira and Ian are able to simply be, and strikingly contrast with the tightly framed cramped and bustling spaces of London, evoking the characters’ exhaustion and hopelessness.
Perceptive and empathetic, Falling Into Place ultimately provides a hopeful view of love and relationships as something that take time and work, but are worth every single effort.
Review by Larissa Guerrini-Maraldi
