“The main prize (at the Locarno Film Festival) went, deservedly, to István Szabó's 25 Fireman's Street, a dense, fragmented history of a Budapest apartment building, reflected through the dreams and memories of its residents on the night of its demolition. Meshing fantasy and memory, and switching (disconcertingly at first, until the pattern emerges in the patchwork of images) from one resident to another, Szabó builds an intricate jigsaw out of the aspirations and disappointments of several generations of people marked by their tiny place in the cruel history of Hungary during the last sixty years. It is a difficult film, unsettling in its constant shifts in time and between characters (ghosts of the past visiting the anxious dreams of the present); but it is also a film whose very complexity is in the end its own reward.” --David Wilson, Sight & Sound