Falling Angels

When Scott Smith paints his 60's-backdrop and the portrait of the dysfunctional Field family, there are no flowery colours. With the sexual revolution far away, the three daughters Lou, Sandy and Norma try their best to cope with their parental-imposed isolation. Their manic-depressive mother is practically tied to the couch mourning the loss of long gone hey-days. And their military tyrant of a father (a triumphant Callum Keith Renniel loses his temper at the smallest incident. Memories from the sisters' youth ''when clad shut them in a bomb shelter for weeks'' become apparent anew, and the rebellion is about to explode into the open.
Retro flashbacks of recent cinema (The Ice Storm (1997), Far From Heaven (2002), The Hours (2002)) have in different ways discussed the destruction of the family. Smith's contribution is equally pessimistic, but still emphasises
the emergence of a new, brighter generation. The Field daughters' different struggles highlight a feminist critique of a society which explicitly is tying mothers to their houses. This could have been the result if the TV-series The Golden Years hadn't been about Kevin, but about his neglected hippie sister.
JOHAN LINDQVIST

Medverkande
Miranda Richardson, Callum Keith Rennie,Katharine Isabelle: Producent
Robin Cass: Manus
Esta Spalding: Foto
Gregory Middleton: Musik
Ken Whiteley: Talat språk
English