From its opening of characters listening in stunned awe to the music of a legendary fictional folk singer, Sean Mewshaw’s admirable but disappointing Tumbledown traps itself with unfair expectations. As a study of grief, it’s moving, featuring authentic performances and a keen understanding of the receding hibernation that comes with losing a cornerstone person in one’s life. As a romance, it’s slow-going but believable. And as a look at the unfair mythos attributed to the dead, it’s nuanced and incisive. But in attempting to balance these complementary parts, Tumbledown is buried by its own ambitions.
As it begins, Hannah (Rebecca Hall) is in pieces, clinging to loss out in a pastoral wilderness lodge in a small Maine town where she used to live with Hunter, her husband and the folk singer whose legacy precedes him. Hunter passed away when he slipped down a ravine while walking along a mountaintop,...
As it begins, Hannah (Rebecca Hall) is in pieces, clinging to loss out in a pastoral wilderness lodge in a small Maine town where she used to live with Hunter, her husband and the folk singer whose legacy precedes him. Hunter passed away when he slipped down a ravine while walking along a mountaintop,...
- 2/8/2016
- by Michael Snydel
- The Film Stage
Title: Tumbledown Director: Sean Mewshaw Starring: Rebecca Hall, Jason Sudeikis, Dianna Agron, Joe Manganiello, Griffin Dunne, Blythe Danner. Rebecca Hall is truly enticing in Sean Mewshaw’s film about a young woman struggling to move on with her life after the death of her husband. But, despite her talent, ‘Tumbledown’ is rather cliched in delivering us the old adage that “When It Seems Like Things Are Really Falling Apart, They’re Just Falling Into Place.” Hannah (Rebecca Hall) is still grieving the death of her husband, an acclaimed folk singer, when Andrew McDonnell (Jason Sudekis), a brash New York writer, forces her to confront her loss and the ambiguous circumstances of his [ Read More ]
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- 2/1/2016
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Dianna Agron is busy at work on the Worcester, Mass. set of her latest film, Sean Mewshaw‘s romantic comedy “Tumbledown.” Last Sunday was the former “Glee” star’s first day on the job, and courtesy of JustJared.com, we’ve got your very first on set photos! “Tumbledown” follows a woman named Hannah (Rebecca Hall) who struggles to move on after the death of her husband, an acclaimed musician who’s the subject of a biography she’s working on. However, after meeting and falling for a New York writer named Andrew McDonnell (Jason Sudeikis), she’s forced to confront the issues surrounding her husband’s death. [...]
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- 4/8/2014
- by Alfonso Espina
- UpandComers
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