Falling Into Place Review | Skye's the Limit

Falling Into Place review | Skye's the limit

Two strangers strike up a close and unexplainable bond in Aylin Tezel’s first feature. Here’s our Falling Into Place review.  Falling Into Place, Aylin Tezel’s directorial debut, begins with partial close-ups. A collarbone here, a finger there, maybe half a face. We see only fragments of people before we see the whole person. It’s a sentiment that intertwines itself with the larger story, too.  Tezel appears as Kira, a young woman trying to get …

Falling Into Place review – Sally Rooney-core for the big screen

Someone has been reading a little too much Sally Rooney, and that someone is director/writer and star Aylin Tezel, whose ambitious debut feature, Falling Into Place, plays like a finely-honed piece of Rooney-core for the big screen. Not a criticism, per se, but definitely a signifier of the film’s strident views on love, happenstance, shame, trauma, romantic demons, family demons, professional demons, and any type of demons really. Tezel plays K…