"Tarsem waited 12 years to shoot The Fall because he was waiting for the right child actor to listen to Roy's odd, threadbare adventure yarn, and to make us believe that he or she had the imagination to transform it into something majestic, mountain-scaled, screen-filling. For all the praise young Ivana Baquero got for playing Pan's Labyrinth's Ofelia, her fans ain't seen nothing yet: The Fall's Catinca Untaru, a chubby, gurgling little thing from Romania who'd never acted before, gives one of the most magically peculiar and affectingly childlike child performances I've ever seen."
Tim Robey tim.robey@telegraph.co.uk http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk
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