A family’s past and present intermingle in Germany’s eerie, elliptical ‘Sound of Falling’

Directed by Mascha Schilinski, the movie accommodates four generations of German women, all occupying the same house but in ...
Roger Ebert

Sound of Falling

Operates like a ghost story, complete with a haunted house, but the ghosts aren't supernatural. The ghost is history.

Telling the Stories of a House Full of Secrets

Mascha Schilinski’s movie “Sound of Falling,” which takes place over a century in a rural farmhouse, shows how trauma is transmitted through generations.
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To create the atmosphere in ‘Sound of Falling,' Mascha Schilinski asked, ‘What does a black hole sound like?'

Mascha Schilinski arrived in Cannes as a fully formed filmmaker with "Sound of Falling," technically her second feature after her student film, "Dark Blue Girl," which she made at the Film Academy ...
The New Yorker

The Ghosts of Girlhoods Past in “Sound of Falling”

At the start of the extraordinary German drama “Sound of Falling,” a teen-ager, Erika (Lea Drinda), hobbles down a hall on one leg and a pair of crutches. It takes a second to realize that she has no ...