TIFF 2018 Review: LET ME FALL (Iceland/Finland/Germany 2018) ***1/2

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Drawing on true stories and interviews with the families of addicts, this harrowing portrait of addiction follows Stella and Magnea through the decades as precarious teenage years morph into perilous adulthoods.

LET ME FALL follows the downward spiral of Magnea through decades from teenager to adult through drug addiction.  The trouble with Magnea is that she never ever genuinely wishes to turn her life around.  

She is happy to give blow jobs in to fat, ugly blokes in order to earn a fix.  In the film, there is an almost unwatchable scene in which she is forced to give one even before she showers and after that, gets punched up instead of him keeping his promise.  “Nobody wants you, you are ugly,” he says to…

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