- Free Fall
On Friday I guessed that Gyorgy Palfi’s Free Fall (which screens once more at the Chicago International Film Festival on Thursday at 2:30 PM) would not disappoint viewers looking for something weird. I was right. I couldn’t look away from this unclassifiable Hungarian feature when I caught it over the weekend. Palfi’s imagery evokes classic surrealism, alluding to repressed anxieties about sex and death as they might manifest themselves in dreams. And like many of the first-generation surrealists, Palfi is a meticulous realist with regards to the environments in which his dream scenarios unfold. It doesn’t seem coincidental that certain areas of the housing complex where the movie takes place recall locations in Cristi Puiu’s hyperrealist The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
- Gone Girl
Ben Sachs writes about moviegoing every Monday.
