Sound of Falling

So tenderly in touch with the shared but unspoken traumas that are visited upon her cast of young women, Schilinski mines tremendous sorrow from the secret poetics of girlhood...

Mascha Schilinski’s film is something like a ghost story or even a folk-horror and there is a clammy unease in every shot as the camera drifts up and away from scenes like a ghost...

...is an intellectual puzzle even as it trades in bodily sensations and striking images, recreating the febrile sensation of a mind splintered by too many painful truths.