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The Man Who Fell To Earth [1976]
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David Bowie is impressive as a disorientated alien in his first
major film lead. His character, Thomas Newton, has a disarming,
other worldly air about him, and it's a film that is pretty
disturbing, but it has its endearing moments, too. - Paul
Rance.
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The Man Who Fell To Earth Cast List |
David Bowie - Thomas
Jerome Newton |
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Man Who Fell To Earth Review
While other films directed by Nicolas Roeg have attained similar
cult status (including Walkabout and Don't Look Now),
none has been as hotly debated as this languid but oddly
fascinating adaptation of the science fiction novel by Walter
Tevis. In The Man Who Fell to Earth, David Bowie plays the
alien of the title, who arrives on Earth with hopes of finding a
way to save his own planet from turning into an arid wasteland.
He funds this effort by capitalising on several highly lucrative
inventions, and in so doing becomes the powerful leader of an
international corporate conglomerate. But his success has
negative consequences as well--his contact with Earth has a
disintegrating effect that sends him into a tailspin of
disorientation and metaphysical despair. The sexual attention of
a cheerful young woman (Candy Clark) doesn't do much to change
his outlook, and his introduction to liquor proves even more
devastating, until, finally, it looks as though his visit to
Earth may be a permanent one. The Man Who Fell to Earth is
definitely not for every taste--it's a highly contemplative,
primarily visual experience that Roeg directs as an abstract
treatise on (among other things) the alienating effects of an
over-commercialised society. Stimulating and hypnotic or
frightfully dull, depending on your receptivity to its loosely
knit ideas, it's at least in part about not belonging, about
being disconnected from the world--about being a stranger in a
strange land when there's really no place like home. --Jeff
Shannon. --This text refers to the VHS edition.
The Man Who Fell To Earth Synopsis
An alien crash lands on Earth whilst on a water collecting
mission...
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