György Petó was a successful businessman from a wealthy family in the Hungarian city of Szeged. At 30 he acquired an 8mm camera and became a prolific home movie buff. It was 1937. György Petó was Jewish. The tenth film in Péter Forgács's ongoing "Private Hungary" series, in which he reworks home movies to illuminate some of the hidden interstices of mid-twentieth century Hungarian history, Free Fall is an extraordinary look at the "ordinary" life of Petó, his family, friends, and lover Eva between 1938 and 1944. The language of the ever more elaborate and cruel Hungarian anti-Jewish laws, chanted to a mesmerizing musical score by Tibor Szemzó, forms a haunting aural counterpoint to the images of this intimate and eloquent documentary. Shown with Human Remains (Jay Rosenblatt, U.S./Denmark, 1998, 30 mins), an investigation into the personal lives of dictators offers a chilling look into the face of evil.-Irina Leimbacher