For lack of a european director They really tried. You can see it at every step of the way. But no. No success. It's slow and that's pretty much it. Move slowly. Speak sparsely.
Loved the scene when he gets hit with the door and the camera rolls with him. Excellent.
Then it doesn't do much more this movie. Nobody really reacts to the smelly, dirty, bloodied, beat up man with the very clean white manicured hands.
Depthless characters and story.
I'm sure a european director would have made of this film what it might have, what it wanted to be. But alas. No deal.
I'll be waiting for the adaptation coming from France, or England, or any of those countries where slow films are made properly and not a struggle as this one evidently was.