Your unborn twins are gossiping about you. No, really. They're judging.
Change is in the air as Violet prepares to bring twin boys into the world. Inside her womb, her unborn sons contemplate their future, while the world around her is in transformation: her husband is secretly planning to leave her, her father is slipping into senility and her daughter has taken a vow of silence. Haunting and slyly funny, Smokefall explores the lives of this family in a lyrical treatise on the fragility of life and the power of love.
Writing
Fetus narrators somehow become the film's most reliable voices.
Acting
Katherine Keberlin carries entire universes in her silences.
Director
Anne Kauffman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Noah Haidle's acclaimed stage play, the film struggles to translate theatrical magic realism to screen—some critics argue the womb-dialogue works better live.
Mike Nussbaum was 96 during filming, making his scenes with 'future' grandchildren exist in genuine temporal vertigo.
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