Veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland and screenwriter Marek Epstein have created an appropriately Kafkaesque Kafka biopic. Idan Weiss stars as the philosopher and author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. And - he looks just like him. Really, he does.

This is how you do a biopic.

All such explanations risk being superficial. But Ms. Holland doesn’t push them. Better are her more oblique turns -- realistic scenes with strange underpinnings.

An atypical, ambitious, and entertaining biopic with impeccable acting. 'Franz' isn't particularly Kafkaesque, but it at least leaves the viewer with several ideas about who Franz Kafka was—and, for some, still is. [Full review in Spanish].