London Film Festival 2014. Hackney Picturehouse, 11/10/2014
A housebound geriatric and his wife. A hygiene obsessed couple who have sex wrapped in cling film. A man introduces his naked fiancée at a dinner party. A slapstick threesome, complete with laughter track. A gynecologist performs a reverse childbirth procedure, simply because it didn't work out for the parents. A child is inhibited by an enormous bull that only he can see, and is mistreated as a result. A meditation guru resents a student who transcends matter.
These seemingly unconnected vignettes make up Gyorgy Palfi's Free Fall. Although bizarre and often amusing, the stories are too slight and tangential to make for a completely satisfactory 80 minutes unless perhaps you look at them as a series of abstract shorts, which the director denies is his intention.
Up against Palfi's atmospheric and innovative Hukkle and the gorgeous and bizarre Taxidermia, this latest foray into his unique headspace is a bit of a let down, which is perhaps understandable given that Palfi was considering giving up the film business because of difficulties in getting funding. The soundtrack's use of Amon Tobin's music is a highlight.
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