Directors: Martin Benchimol
Gender: Documentary
Year: 2023
Premiere: 6/10/23
★★★
The film defies a simple label, existing at a fault line between documentary realism and lyrical cinema. It wanders through a story that feels both intimate and expansive, drawing the viewer into a world where a grand family mansion on the Argentinian plains becomes a living character as enigmatic as the people who inhabit it. Though the title nods toward Franz Kafka, the piece charts its own circuitous path, inviting audiences to map the interior weather of memory, obligation, and desire rather than to seek a conventional plot. The mansion is not merely backdrop; it is a mirror and a cage, a place that promises permanence while quietly revealing the fragility of ownership and the burdens of legacy. The walls hold echoes of the past, and every room offers a threshold where time can bend, pause, or slip away. In this landscape, space becomes a language, and the house speaks through light, doorways, and the scent of old wood, inviting contemplation about who is allowed to inhabit a home and who is permitted to leave.