Find Me Falling
Find Me Falling
Find Me Falling: When most of us think about spending a holiday on the Mediterranean, all sorts of things, in order of importance and preferences, come into the mind’s eye, such as the crystal clear waters of blue and green, the seaside towns that dot the way along the coast, as well as the number of different cuisines of seafood ready for consumption.
It is inevitable that this perhaps is why a certain rock star in the name of John Allman (Harry Connick Jr.) takes a break away from the music industry to seek the sandy beaches in the Island of Cyprus. Unfortunately, he is faced with a more shocking issue when the beautiful house that he had built on a cliff architecture, ends up being a location where people go to commit suicide.
As he makes possible avenues to learn the ways of f what silencing of such a practice, he comes across Melina (Ali Fumiko Whitney) who harbored dreams of becoming a musician. Together with Melina is her mother, Sia (Agni Scott), an island doctor who had been in love with John years back, and who now gets a chance to remarry.
Writer-director Stelana Kliris follows the worn out patters of a rom-com with her second feature “Find Me Falling” after the ‘engineered’ rom-com where every motion has been calibrated to meet expectations ‘Committed’ made her feature debut. Instead of this, Ms Kliris thanks her fans and instead opts for a generalised safe story of a long overdue rom com between movie stars.
That quintessential subplot about suicide just a door step away from John, is a bit inconsistent with the mood – it is meant to be escapist, hetero-sentiment filled rom com, a bit high on cliché. In such a movie, you would expect many more carefully orchestrated imploding moments, like in the movie that is called “Find Me Falling”.
For instance, at one moment, a character instructs a despondent man ready to jump off a cliff, “Now is not the day to die!” Such is the struggle a man faces, embarrassed, he turns back, John himself continuing whatever drama in a mono here with Sia.
There are other lighter moments too, as we have John dragging a young girl over and assuring her she is safe, where and how do you adjust from music all through the night in a taverna then it is burning sun and the beach and extremely clean beautiful waters, oh yes and the enticing burning will she or won’t she kiss you.
It would seem that the snags of being a rock star take their toll on Harry Connick Jr who looks every bit the tired and worn out rocker on vacation, although he impressively manages to portray the disillusioned first time visitor. Whether it is due to his background or simply his personality, Con is shy and does not relish people’s recognition of him, as it has been said that he is the most unassuming rock star one could find in a movie.
Still, Agni Scott’s Sia is charmingly competent in portraying a career woman and a single mother, for instance, Sasha’s part takes no effort in a walking tantrum but does so well through the film in a sort of fashionable offhandedness.
It’s story that’s compelling, maybe even up to a fault, Amy and David like themselves too much to think that the longing for each other is exclusively an emotional thing. physical longing feels lacking in simplistically sexy concepts, effect being that some of the love scenes are not always revelatory in the way the conflict resolutions are.
But Kliris’s script is not focused only on the two lovers of the film. Instead, she expands Sia’s interactions with her daughter Melina, her ever-concerned sister Koula (Lea Maleni) who is over this handsome man who has returned to Cyprus after years, the family’s head Marikou (Aggeliki Filippidou) who is more than happy to lend a shoulder and offer her pearls of wisdom or calm volatile family members.
There occurs a physical alteration to the family unit where romance is not the only thing that advances the narrative but also enriches the cultural and spatial aspects of the story rather than using them as mere backdrops in the narrative. Even the family of Captain Manoli (Tony Demetriou) helps John with a tour of the town, to the taverna where John sees Sia after years for the first time and whom he is also introduced to where John has his own problems that he helped his family and John in return.
When the credits roll, “Find Me Falling” concludes in an offbeat manner. It would seem, that this delightful rom-com has had its bubbles burst by an unwarranted uptown clash of sobering dramatics and weak pop music and song lyrics. One of John’s catchiest song is dubbed “Girl on the Beach’, and believe me, the song sounds no better than than the title.
When a movie makes a decision like this, it may change the idea of the audience regarding the movie- it is a light-hearted breeze of a romantic getaway, refreshing and enjoyable, like putting in mint when the recipe calls for lemon. It alters the picture of the film one is watching, leaving one with a feeling that is not so pleasant yet is the sone at the end of a normal delightful meal.
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- Genre: Comedy, Romance
- Country: United States
- Director: Stelana Kliris
- Cast: Harry Connick Jr., Agni Scott, Ali Fumiko Whitney
