Selbstachtung

The setup for the plot is fantastic, actors are good, the locations are also incredible, and Mario Camus is really gifted at framing shots but his way of telling a noir story is through many scenes of two characters sitting and talking in overexpository sentences. There is a point, around half an hour in, that most of those dialogues are redundant to what it is being told visually, while other characters would have benefited from more screen time.

It's like Camus was afraid of doing what the story logically asks for: suspense and violence. I really like him as a director but sometimes he was lost in his "directing as if I am writing a book" ways.