While "a nun and a priest fall in love", sounds like the set-up for a one-line gag, Falling is in fact very loosely inspired by a true story, and Jack Thorne fully exploits the dramatic potential over six hours. In contrast to so much television drama, it is content to lure the viewer in slowly rather than unduly impose itself, making the emotional peaks and troughs hit all the harder when they come.
Anna (Keeley Hawes), meanwhile, is a wry, calm and devoted nun of two decades. Having found family in the sisters around her (the relationship with her postulant has definite shades of a mother and daughter), she spends much of her time in the convent’s kitchen garden and is being lined up to succeed as abbess by the present incumbent (Niamh Cusack). Neither David nor Anna is looking for a way out, let alone looking for love.
View oEmbed on the source websiteHe cannot bring himself to reciprocate; to make the sacrifices she has already made to get this far, to surrender logic and protocol to instinct – to take a leap of faith. Anna ultimately is left humiliated and wounded. But is the barrier a purely religious one, or are there other hurdles they must first overcome if they really want to make this relationship work?
It means much rests on the actors, and both Hawes and Essiedu are on top form (last seen playing an assassin and an anti-establishment home secretary respectively – a decent indicator of range if ever there was one), keenly marrying stubbornness with vulnerability, accessibility with secrecy and solemnity with a twinkle of wit.
The generosity of spirit and openness of mind that runs through Thorne’s work – from Help to Adolescence – are present, but so are guilt and brutal reality.
Falling is a paean to community wherever you may find it and, perhaps more pertinently, when you might need it most. A message that feels more essential now than ever.
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