Falcon DVD (2012)

Falcon details

Format:	18 DVD
Starring:	Marton Csokas, Emilia Fox, Hayley Atwell, Kerry Fox, Santiago Cabrera, Bernard Hill
Director:	Pete Travis
Genres:	Drama - Crime, Television - BBC, Horror
Studio:	SPIRIT ENTERTAINMENT

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Falcon	18 Feature

DVD Information

Rental release:	10 Dec 2012
Main languages:	English

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actor dazzles in gripping tales

By lesliejung (93 reviews) from london, england , 10 Jan 2013

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Falcon This is a two-part television series which I guess stopped with these depictions of parts of two of Robert Wilson’s detective thrillers set in Seville. Actor Marton Csokas captures a troubled man, the detective, whose past bites him right in his familial identity; and induces him to cross lines between good and bad, and also in relations to people he suspects perhaps prematurely are not suspect. Except that the underlying message is that we are probably all suspect – and that’s what grips us in the novels – and Csokas’s portrayal invites us in more than the storytelling does. Seville is beautiful and people’s relations to Falcon keep us gripped – he has a lot of screen time and despite the entire acting ensemble’s being native English-speakers (with only a few exceptions) we believe that they are Spaniards; no fake histrionics but also no repressed English-ness. Utterly convincing and surprising in that regard. The stories are a bit sketchy, and I was distracted because I know the novels; many slightly clichéd ideas that are short hand notes to what usually would be more deeply portrayed – but this is television after all – high quality television, but, still … I wanted to see more and I think there are no more; so it leaves you longing to live in that world again and I can think of no higher recommendation.
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Spanish scenery deserves much better

By bazm (22 reviews) from Lewes , 06 May 2013

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I must have been watching something else. I allowed for the jarring English accents but the poor direction/camera work and wooden acting made this unwatchable. Just having violent scenes of torture does not make a good detective series. This could have been so much better with Spanish actors and sub-titles. The scenery deserved better
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Excellent Spanish Detective Series.

By Gledders (4 reviews) from Chelmsford , 25 Jan 2013

Beautifully filmed in Seville, it gets around the accent issues by not trying to impersonate. The English accent is allowed to flow and you soon forget the East-End drawl of the second detective. Atwell shines as a the beautiful wife of a murdered man. I thoroughly enjoyed this series.
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actor dazzles in gripping tales

By lesliejung (93 reviews) from london, england , 10 Jan 2013

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Falcon This is a two-part television series which I guess stopped with these depictions of parts of two of Robert Wilson’s detective thrillers set in Seville. Actor Marton Csokas captures a troubled man, the detective, whose past bites him right in his familial identity; and induces him to cross lines between good and bad, and also in relations to people he suspects perhaps prematurely are not suspect. Except that the underlying message is that we are probably all suspect – and that’s what grips us in the novels – and Csokas’s portrayal invites us in more than the storytelling does. Seville is beautiful and people’s relations to Falcon keep us gripped – he has a lot of screen time and despite the entire acting ensemble’s being native English-speakers (with only a few exceptions) we believe that they are Spaniards; no fake histrionics but also no repressed English-ness. Utterly convincing and surprising in that regard. The stories are a bit sketchy, and I was distracted because I know the novels; many slightly clichéd ideas that are short hand notes to what usually would be more deeply portrayed – but this is television after all – high quality television, but, still … I wanted to see more and I think there are no more; so it leaves you longing to live in that world again and I can think of no higher recommendation.
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