With a Little Patience

With a Little Patience is a Hungarian short film made in 2007, written and directed by László Nemes. It depicts the daily routine of an office clerk keeping records and thus assisting extermination efforts in the course of the Shoah. Style The movie consists of a single 10-minute planned sequence. For the first eight minutes only the leading actress is in focus seen at short distance in the foreground, while the background remains blurry. The entire movie does not contain any intelligible spoken word, except . Throughout the film, and increasing in rate toward the end, an occasional dull thud is heard. Its source and origin cannot be recognized. A great deal of the story is told via the sound backdrop: Most sound sources are out of frame, such as the scribbling of a pencil, typewriter strokes, the bark of a dog, or the wailing lady.