Falcon Song

Plot

A guitar playing drifter (Gabriel Sunday) helps a rancher's granddaughter (Rainey Qualley) find her true calling. They soon find themselves in the middle of a land war instigated by Cap Davenport (Martin Kove).

Cast

Release

Falcon Song premiered at the 2014 Santa Barbara International Film Festival on 31 January. The film's US theatrical release began in Los Angeles on March 21, 2014. It subsequently screened across America at classic movie houses as well as Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas.

On May 23, 2014 Falcon Song was released in North America on major Cable On Demand and Internet VOD platforms including AT&T U-Verse, Verizon, Comcast, Cox, Charter, iTunes, Vudu, Xbox Live, and PlayStation Network.

Reception

Falcon Song received mostly positive reviews when it was initially released in 2014. Ernest Hardy of LA Weekly wrote that Falcon Song is "modest, charming, and relatively subversive in the context of contemporary American film." and that the movie is "mercifully free of easy irony".

Sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times stated that "The Director achieves a desired retro aesthetic" and that "The story's wholesomeness could have tipped into bizarro David Lynch dreamland, but it remains grounded, more or less."

Ethan Stewart of The Santa Barbara Independent wrote that the film is "A tongue-in-cheek celebration of 1980s’ cinema, Jason Brown’s Falcon Song legitimately makes you feel like you have travelled through time. The film goes retro with everything from production techniques and the soundtrack to its storyline…".

In Film Threat's review by Mark Bell, the film is highlighted as "a throwback to a less cynical age of cinema".