Pretentious drivel

Rating: 1/10 (21 May 2019)

This has got to be one of the most pretentious movies I have ever seen. I can't believe the amount of reviews that are giving it high-ratings and can only assume that these people have either been paid to write these reviews or are guilty of some kind of kings-clothes narrative.
Three of us watched it and all three of us got to the 90 minute mark, looked at each other, and then almost simultaneously asked the question "is this totally c**p or what?".
Maybe the people who are giving it 10/10 and calling it 'extraordinary', 'super', or 'a masterpiece' are not familiar with world cinema. The reason I say that is that this movie is clearly trying desperately to give off a foreign-movie vibe. It is trying to be a French movie, or maybe Italian or possibly Spanish. Alas, it is doing it very badly. It simply comes across as a very poor facsimile of this world movie genre.
In the end we fast-forwarded from the 90 minute mark to the end. We could see the images at 10x speed, but couldn't hear the dialogue. Trust me, you can do this and won't miss a thing.
There are three redeeming things to this disastrous movie.
1. The fathers speech at the end. Absolutely brilliant and superbly performed.
2. The acting. There are some superb performances.
3. The cinematography. Very good, if slightly predictable for anyone familiar with international movies. It came across as being a Hollywood movie trying to be a European movie.
Even with these three positives it is still a dreadful movie that is a waste of two hours. I love movies so it always pains me to give a bad review, but it offends me that the voting for this seems to have been rigged to give it a much higher rating than it deserves.