Yes, I think that's one of those combinations of author, subject and approach that is precisely right. The very low key, disinterested outside view that works here by somehow seeming to be much more intimate is to quote Edwin Muir, iirc, 'a Chinese moment in the Mearns', a combination of right person, right time, right place.
That they very nearly replicated that in a film which is almost the opposite medium that you would expect of to work in was extraordinary.
