{"id":17291,"date":"2024-07-12T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?p=17291"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:02:41","slug":"the-falling-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-falling-star\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FALLING STAR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE FALLING STAR<\/h2>\n

| 2024 – 98′ – Comedy. France-Belgium Co-production.
\nWritten by:\u00a0Dominique Abel,\u00a0Fiona Gordon.
\nDirected by: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon.
\nStarring: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Kaori Ito, Bruno Romy, Philippe Martz, Bruce Ellison, M\u00e9lanie Depuiset, Jimmy Assandri.
\nOfficial selections; Locarno International Film Festival 2023, Telluride International Film Festival 2023.
\nIn French\u00a0with English subtitles.
\nA Kino Lorber release. |<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel (THE FAIRY, LOST IN PARIS) delight audiences with their blend of slapstick and burlesque. Their latest \u201ccrime movie\u201d transmutes the codes of film noir through their characteristically colorful palette and clownish plot twists. Abel plays Boris, a former activist hiding from his dark past, keeping in the shadows as a barkeeper, until a one-armed vigilante finally hunts him down. The fortuitous appearance of a double\u2014the depressive recluse Dom (also played by Abel) seems to offer the perfect decoy. But his tenacious and loopy ex-wife, the private eye Fiona (Gordon), could foil their master plan. Abel and Gordon\u2019s memorable dose of hilarity seems perfectly calibrated to the social mood; each deceptively minimalistic set piece brims with a cinematic intelligence that recalls Tati and Keaton. The cast features Philippe Martz and Bruno Romy and the Japanese dancer Kaori Ito, who plays a willful and hilariously unpredictable femme fatale.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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