Max Blecher and Scarred Hearts must be one of those “notice a character actor and suddenly they’re everywhere” situations – I came across mention of the writer two weeks ago, AFAIK for the first time, while googling “spinal tuberculosis.”

I believe it. (What were you Googling spinal tuberculosis for?) I wanted to see it because while I've never read the novel, it's been on the edges of my radar for some time now for obvious reasons, and the film was reviewed interestingly in its own right. I think it's still okay that it's not what I put in my brain last night, though.