Free Fall (2013)

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

I want to say that Free Fall was an experience. In many ways is like a 40's melodrama. He, his wife and the other woman. What makes it feel different is that the other woman is a man. Hanno Koffler and Max Riemelt are superb as the forbidden sides of this triangle. Frank, compassionate, truthful and painful, very painful. The love and passion, fear and guilt in Hanno Koffler's eyes are haunting and recognizable. Max Riemelt's Kay makes the alternative in Koffler's Marc's life totally plausible and fills it with a form of suspense that the ending didn't completely clear out. So I'm so happy there will be a part 2. I can't wait.

Just watched the English made "Weekend" about two gay guys deciding if it was love or sex they had between them, but this is about a much deeper turmoil/angst - one where a married guy in a "macho" career with a newborn baby has to decide if he's going to give into his gayness and risk everything to love another man...or is he going to back down. The last 20 minutes are heartbreaking as we see him struggling with his overwhelming emotions. And then we get a glimmer of a burst of courage and the sheer will power to face life with all its conflicts and to overcome them. I'll be watching for a sequel. Bravo to German filmmakers and the fine cast and crew who made this film possible.

The movie follows a typical gay story arc -- one guy is completely comfortable being his gay self, the other is in the closet and uncomfortable with it. Yet somehow, they form a relationship, setting up the confrontation of uncomfortable guy having to choose between love and the societal comforts upon which he's built his life.The story itself was quite mechanical -- perhaps not so surprising when thinking about the Germans. There are no campy gay scenes, only love and gorgeous lustfully-writhing German blond bodies. There is no gay drama scene, there is simply an efficient confrontation where one professes love and the other can't break the shackles of his straight life until too late.Although the story is somewhat formulaic, you honestly cannot help but understand the smoldering attraction these 2 actors are able to project on screen. I'm told they are both heterosexual. You honestly wouldn't know it from their portrayals. I found myself understanding why the "in the closet" guy couldn't come out; and I sympathized with the more outgoing "comfortable being gay" guy. I sincerely and highly recommend this movie for the "sturm und drang" it is able to portray, that the actors convey, the importance of the choices each character makes, and the respect used with respect to each character.After a jog in the woods, treat yourself to a German beer or two and this movie, you won't regret it!

I loved this movie wholeheartedly, but as many people stated before me, the ending is sad. And why does a gay romance have to end this way?? IT DOESN'T! If there is enough interest, which there definitely is, a sequel with the same actors and director can become a reality. Please show your support if you want to know what happens to Marc and Kay! The main platform for this is Facebook. Facebook search Free Fall 2, or Freier Fall 2, and you'll see the main page. As of now, there are 6000 likes! The current goal is 10-15k, so we are halfway there! I don't ever go through the trouble to advertise something like this, especially a sequel, but there is something about the actors and the on screen relationship that really makes me curious for a continuation. End rant...thanks : )