Adapting Kafka to screen will always be a monumentally difficult task. The only time I felt a film captured the essence of the word 'kafkaesque' was Koji Yamamura's 2007 animated short A Country Doctor. In the same way, but executed in a completely different manner, Before the Law, captures that same Kafkaesque feeling which permeates every second of its 15 minute runtime.
It is incredibly faithful to the parable by Kafka, which was featured originally in his novel The Trial…