‘Franz’ Review: Agnieszka Holland’s Kafka Biopic Never Stands Still, but Never Finds Its Stride

As biopic subjects go, Franz Kafka is resistant to standard-issue treatment on a number of levels — beginning with the fact that his life, short and largely uncelebrated in its time, wasn’t especially remarkable. A humble civil servant from a middle-class Czech Jewish family in Prague, he published very little of his influential literary oeuvre […]