This is his best film. Adapted from a novel by Georges Simenon it works as a perfect melding of story and technique. Tarr's slow camera movements here give the story time to develop in the mind of the audience. The pacing feels right. The high-contrast B/W is perfect for this setting.
It helps that he had an actual story to work from instead of the pointless meandering his other films display. It's by no means realistic...the whole thing is rigorously stylized but it's that style that sets it apart from whatever others are doing.
I'm glad I persevered with this guy. If this had been the first of his I'd seen I'd have thought him a cinema genius.
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