Is a "stalled" aircraft free-falling?
If the cables break on an elevator (and the safety brakes fail), you won't be in true freefall. You'll still have friction from wind resistance, from the guide rollers on the rails, etc. The same is true in an airplane. Even if you're falling straight down, you'll still have wind resistance.

In addition, lift doesn't just drop straight to zero when the wing stalls (no matter what it might feel like to the pilot). Here's the lift-to-angle diagram for a typical wing:


(wikimedia.org)

This wing stalls at about 16° AoA. But notice that the coefficient of lift doesn't simply drop to zero, it just starts descending at that point. So even in a stall, the wings are still generating some lift, just not enough to overcome the weight of the plane.