Out of print, unavailable on streaming services, and nearly unviewable for years, Tarsem’s visionary masterpiece, THE FALL, returns to theaters in a stunning 4k restoration, presented by David Fincher and Spike Jonze!

Join us for a special screening of the film with an introduction by Joseph Giunta, the Des Moines Symphony’s music director and conductor. He will discuss the film’s unique and masterful use of the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, one of the most famous pieces in all of symphonic music. Presented in partnership with the Des Moines Symphony.

Film Details:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.