http://www.noripcord.com/tags/film/fantasy The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/fall <p>I, like many, am immediately suspicious of movies with a young child occupying a lead role.&nbsp; There's just something so insipid when a mostly uncomprehending actor is exploited for a quality that gets an audience off in some way, that quality with children being cuteness.&nbsp; Tarsem's <i>The Fall</i> is a film centered around a cute kid, but I didn't mind that here.&nbsp; He extracts a performance out of Cantinca Untaru that, while adorable, feels unforced and honest in the way she is allowed to be a curious girl, not a stage trained mouthpiece for vulgarized Hollywood notions of how <p><a href="http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/fall">read more</a></p> http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/film/fall#comments commercial director epic fantasy old hollywood storytelling tarsem visionary Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:32:57 +0000 George Booker 938 at http://www.noripcord.com