Before the Fall

Before the Fall

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Ale, with rifle, and the kids

A baroque apocalypse thriller and, in case it’s getting too existential for you, Before the Fall (originally Tres Diás) also adds a dab of serial-killer angst for good measure. This feature debut by director F Javier Gutiérrez made a big splash when it came out in 2008 and then quietly disappeared. Arriving three years before Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, it seems at first to ask the same question: how would you react to the news of an impending apocalypse? Alejandro (Victor Clavijo), living with his mother, is a disgruntled handyman who learns one day via TV bulletin that the world will end in three days. A gigantic meteor will eradicate any possibility of … Read more