In Praise of...?

Like several other reviewers, I have read the critics' reviews and selected this film because of its high rating, but am just as baffled as they are. Yes, there are 'arty' cinematic techniques but if a film causes one to not care less what happens, and start watching the clock to see how long is left to run, something has gone wrong with it as a means of communication. The best way to communicate is at least to leave memorable images in the mind of the viewer, or - better still - to tell a story (compare the parables of Jesus, which did both - unlike this film).