The Man From London - 2007 - 6/10

A railroad switchman catches a shady transaction that concludes in murder.
The killer disappears, as does the victim, yet the McGuffin bobs to the surface. A briefcase, packed with English banknotes.
The switchman, sensing a life changing opportunity, takes the money.
Viewers either adored or loathed film.
Filmed in high contrast black and white, it strives hard to emulate Noir.
With maybe fifty lines of dialogue, this is almost a Silent film.
The pace is incomprehensibly slow. Snail like camera pans, lingering on faces, expressions of stone.
Personally, I found this style mannered.
The story, based on Georges Simenon, is what drew me. As adapted, it boils down to a trifle, a comatose trifle.