Overall not a bad movie, but I found it slow, a little prone to cliché, and oddly distant. I found it hard to become emotionally engaged. The characters, even the man playing Boix, sort of bled together and it became difficult to find a way to attach to any of them. They were rather interchangeable. While I understand the focus was primarily on an administrative department of what was arguably to most brutally operated of the labor camps, the brutality that was a daily fact of life in Mauthausen was only occasionally brought to bear, and even then it felt like an afterthought. I also agree that the SS were essentially cardboard stereotypes, spotless uniforms and sporting a perpetual craggy grimace. I didn't feel they needed a more "human" treatment, but they were just as interchangeable as the rest of the cast. A well shot film, and mores so that it had an obviously limited budget, but I think if failed in the aspect of basic storytelling.
Review of The Photographer of Mauthausen
