The pacing is glacial. The middle third dedicates 20 minutes to Elias meticulously cleaning a single book page while having a whispered argument with his dead mother. It is artful. It is also boring. Furthermore, the film’s treatment of its female victims has already drawn ire; Voss frames their terror with such lingering, voyeuristic cruelty that you feel less like a witness and more like an accomplice.
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