Weinreb & Kazda - shooting in black & white, which contributes both a documentary feel & an expressive vocabulary - are astute & effective in showing the circumstances that fed Ms. Hepnarova's mental illness & led to her homicidal break from the world
is rather a serious, sometimes ponderous work involving several instances of the camera's simply standing till in an empty hallway, or gazing at Olga's face, which is usually downcast and sad