As someone who has viewed and thoroughly enjoyed long shot/take cinema, I must say this is an exercise in masochistic boredom. I watched Satantango and The Turin Horse in a cinema. Those films are riveting. I tell friends how they must watch Ozu. I love and appreciate laborious filmmaking. What these films have that this mess lacks is this- a human element. None of the players here have any humanity, they are essentially robots, nothing more. Akerman gives us little to nothing to work with. It almost feels like a pretentious insiders chuckle with how she duped all the cinephiles out there into believing this was something important. It's not. It's simply an ultra boring stab at auteur filmmaking. Avoid this at all costs. It's basically just wasted time.
