The Element of Crime
The last time I watched this was in 2016 when the streaming home of the Criterion Collection was on Hulu >_> But at least this time I had the subtitles and it was in full HD so I had a more rewarding experience overall.
A pretty challenging and heavily stylized psychological euronoir. Narratively evokes Russian literature (I read Crime & Punishment once 13yrs ago so I'm very very qualified to comment on this). 133
Definitely could be very rewarding on a rewatch once your grasp over the strange narrative is firmer. An extremely strong debut from <PERSON> that seems fairly under-discussed compared to his more intentionally irksome work from the mid-90s onward. Some of the generalizations about <PERSON> that have been made by his detractors don't really fly when you bring a film like this into the conversation. 698