The bleak apartment building in Gyorgy Palfi’s “Free Fall” boasts seven floors. In the opening scene, an unhappy Hungarian woman steps off the roof and plunges past them, but remarkably doesn’t die when she hits the pavement. Over the course of the next 80 minutes, as she limps her way back upstairs, Palfi takes us into each of her neighbors’ apartments, revealing strange, darkly comedic and inevitably surreal glimpses into modern life. György Palfi plunges his audience into the different worlds, life moments of the other tenants of the building. Indeed the senior’s odyssey quickly assumes a phantasmagorical air, with each floor warped into a surreal showcase of bizarre spectacles.

Flagey, Brussels Film Festival