I have little problem with the technical quality of the film, it looks fine and Sandra Hüller is acting on a high level. It is the concept of the film that made this a drag.

It details a few chapters in the life of Charlotte, a skilled teacher and as far as I can tell a decent mother, that has a bit of a flaw: A series of ill-advised adventures with her patients. In three parts the film examines how she balances these two sides of her personality.

The end result is just so bare. There is hardly any dialogue, 90% of the scenes of the film consist of Hüller betraying emotion behind a stoic face, and the show don't tell approach: it all combines to make it a very unwelcoming film, almost as if designed to test your attention span.

Maybe because it has been a long week, but it felt like too much to ask for little payoff.