Let Me Fall

Let Me Fall (Icelandic: Lof mér að falla) is a 2018 Icelandic drama film directed by Baldvin Zophoníasson.^[1] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.^[2]

Let Me Fall
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Icelandic	Lof mér að falla
Directed by	Baldvin Zophoníasson
Written by	Birgir Örn Steinarsson Baldvin Zophoníasson
Produced by	Júlíus Kemp Ingvar Þórðarson
Starring	Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir Þorsteinn Bachmann Atli Oskar Fjalarsson Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson Haraldur Stefansson
Cinematography	Jóhann Máni Jóhannsson
Edited by	Úlfur Teitur Traustason
Music by	Ólafur Arnalds
Production company	The Icelandic Filmcompany
Release date	7 September 2018 (2018-09-07) (TIFF)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	Iceland
Language	Icelandic

Plot

Stella and Magnea, two teenage girls meet at a party. They begin spending time together, experimenting with tobacco, alcohol, and drugs. Magnea eventually drops out of school and distances herself from her former friends. The story follows the two girls as they grow up, experience addiction, drug trafficking, prostitution, and stints in prison.

Cast

• Elín Sif Halldórsdóttir as young Magnea
• Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir as older Magnea
• Eyrún Björk Jakobsdóttir as young Stella
• Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir as older Stella
• Þorsteinn Bachmann as Hannes
• Atli Oskar Fjalarsson as Atli rauði
• Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson as Erlingur Hafsteinn
• Haraldur Stefansson as Gylfi

Reception

Let Me Fall was received positively by most critics, with The Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Dalton saying that "framing the plot in female-driven coming-of-age terms, with a tortured same-sex romance at its heart... gives this story a fresher angle than most drug movies."^{[citation needed]} Andrew Parker of The Gate said the film "eschews cheap clichés surrounding drug dependency in favour of a more delicately crafted, time shifting character study."^{[citation needed]}

For The Canadian Press, David Friend said the film "doesn't blink in showing how drugs can destroy lives, and its heartbreaking moments come when it shows how powerless the people around an addict can feel."^[3]