Have now seen a film by all directors in the 2013 Cannes Competition line up.

Can't remember who I read recently that described the stereotypical festival film, but this fits that description perfectly. Long master shots, little dialogue, non-actors, humorless, very sparse plot punctuated by a scene of violence.

Rewatch. Pushed it up into my top 10 of all time.

A good central performance surrounded by inept filmmaking. I would've much rather preferred a by the numbers biopic than all the flashbacks, side-plots involving a ghost husband and endless montages of outstretched stock footage.