Theatrical release - "Falling Into Place" - Romance by Aylin Tezel
First a little flirtation in the bar, then an intense night and finally a deep connection that changes lives: The plot of Aylin Tezel' s film "Falling Into Place" is quickly summarized and not exactly new for the romance film genre. And yet the 40-year-old - previously known to viewers primarily as an actress in Dortmund's "Tatort" - creates something special in her feature film debut as a director.
It is not only an intense portrait of two people and their stories, but also speaks a little for the generation of people in their mid-thirties - constantly searching for distraction, whether on social media or in dating apps - and yet with a deep longing to arrive.
In the film, it is Kira and Ian who meet on a winter's night on the Scottish Isle of Skye. Both are fleeing from something: she from confronting her failed relationship, he from confronting the problems in his family. Their connection quickly becomes very deep, but they separate again and return to London, miss each other and yet cannot get away from each other.
The encounter triggers something in them in parallel. Kira overcomes the separation and experiences her breakthrough as an artist, Ian establishes contact with his mentally ill sister and concentrates on his compositions.
The main actors in particular lend the film its character. Chris Fulton ("Bridgerton") is convincing as the charming, self-confident and yet vulnerable Ian. Aylin Tezel fascinates as Kira with her own naturalness and warmth.
The story, also written by Tezel, oscillates between childlike lightness and emotional depth, wordplay and paralyzing speechlessness - staged by the interplay of wide-angle and detail shots by the camera (Julian Krubasik). "Falling Into Place" is everything but an ordinary love story.
Falling Into Place, Germany, Great Britain 2023, 113 min., FSK from 12 years, by Aylin Tezel, with Aylin Tezel, Chris Fulton, Alexandra Dowling, Rory Fleck Byrne and others,
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