Bartleby

Director Anthony Friedman constructs the film on the stark contrast between a bustling office environment and the absolute stasis of its protagonist. He explores not conflict, but its utter absence, relying on Herman Melville's genius to build a slow, almost clinical drama of inaction.

What lingers after the viewing is the sense of a quiet earthquake within four walls. The audience is in for a hypnotic and unsettling meditation on the limits of personal choice in a world built on coercion. — MovieFinder Editorial