Sound of Falling – 7.6

A very arty, elegiac and cryptic, but not unpleasant, look at women’s lot in a poor East German farmhouse in three or four discreet early 20th-century years, intercut and largely unresolved. It helped that the director warned, this was not a film about plot or characters; it was an experience that we should float along. Death, sex and subjugation seemed to be common themes, with trivial amusements lightening the load.