FALLING

★★

Drama, R, 112 minutes, 2021

In his directorial debut, Viggo Mortensen plays a long-suffering gay man dealing with the dementia of his bitter, homophobic father. It’s a wellintentioned drama with a precise eye for detail, and also a problem: We can’t help but wonder why the son didn’t cut ties with the detestable old man decades earlier.

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