Aside from vilifying the Nazis, the ideological endgame of Oliver Hirschbiegel’s film remains a bit too slippery.
Throughout the film, director Doris Dörrie’s kitsch-inflected visuals stand out as little more than self-conscious efforts at image-making.
It was just a matter of time before Michael Haneke and Franz Kafka crossed paths.
How cold does Michael Haneke have to be for a punitively faithful Kafka adaptation to qualify as one of his most humane works?