Director: Jonathan Glazer
Writers: Jonathan Glazer (screenplay) and Martin Amis (based on the novel by)
Writers: Jonathan Glazer (screenplay) and Martin Amis (based on the novel by)
Release Date: 2nd February 2024
Hot Rating: 💥💥💥💥💥
Synopsis: Follows the life of the Commandant of Auscwitz, Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and his family as they go about their life together.
Review: Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is a towering achievement in holocaust cinema. Unfolding with stark elegance, his minimalist approach envelopes audiences in the horrors of Auschwitz from the perspective of a Nazi commandant and his wife. Through crisp, sterile visuals and a suffocating industrial soundtrack, the mundane domestic pursuits of the Höss family play out in the foreground while the unimaginable atrocities permeate the periphery. Bolstered by controlled performances from Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, evil is presented not as bombastic but as a force growing insidiously from whispers and averted eyes into utter devastation. Heightening the visual potency are mesmerising thermal night vision dream sequences, presenting a plane of fantasy and hope against the stark realities of the world that the Höss family inhabit. The balancing of reality with fantasy, normalcy with depravity, are among Glazer's key achievements, here, as he captures the film’s subject matter with devastating effectiveness.
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