More than a handful of legendary authors have gone down in the annals as adjectives: Orwell, Sade, Machiavelli, and the writer to whom this ambitious, kaleidoscopic biopic is dedicated—Kafka. In contrast to her previous, classical approach to biographical cinema in Copying Beethoven, veteran Polish director Agnieszka Holland opts to fully embrace the experimental in her latest work. This ethereal film disrupts chronology and breaks down the fourth wall, incorporating visual collages, present-day documentary footage of the Kafka Museum, souvenirs and themed bars paying tribute to the author of The Metamorphosis, time jumps, and recreations of his writings. The result is a homage that remains faithful to the iconoclasm of the man himself, with his socio-economic critiques from the past mirrored in the current context of exploitation of his name to sate tourist demand and the monetisation of his legacy.