Although it's cringe-worthy in its beginners-level grasp of how to aim a camera at a subject, this movie is a testimony to its makers' loving attentiveness to individual human beings who would go entirely unnoticed by the radar of the Corporate American Filmmaking Machine (in its search for the familiar, the glamorous, the bankable).
Hess has an eye for, and a heart for, the experience of those whom Peter Falk describes (in Wings of Desire) as "extras... extra people." And…