7th Floor

Ricardo Darín stars in Séptimo (2013) — an Argentine-Spanish thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Patxi Amezcua.

Sebastián, a Buenos Aires lawyer, collects his two children from his ex-wife's apartment on the seventh floor. He takes the elevator down. The children run the stairs. He reaches the ground floor and waits. They don't come out. What follows is eighty-four minutes inside a building that should offer no way to disappear — but the children have. Darín plays the whole thing in a register of quiet, physical dread, and the restraint is exactly what makes it land. Stream Séptimo (2013) online on iFILM.