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The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
The Zone of Interest
2023 Directed by Jonathan Glazer
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Tarn Willers Johnnie Burn Michal Wilczewski Jacek Wiśniewski Filip Stefanowski Natalia Lubowiecka Dawid Konecki Kamil Kwiatkowski Ewa Mazurkiewicz
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Interessengebiet, Untitled Jonathan Glazer Project, La zona d'interesse, 더 존 오브 인터레스트
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Holocaust cinema has so implicitly existed in the shadow of a single question that it would no longer seem worth asking if not for the fact that it’s never been answered: How do you depict an atrocity? The most urgent and indelible examples of the form offer equally simple yet perfectly contradictory responses. Documentaries like “Shoah” and Alain Resnais’ “Night and Fog” suggest that you don’t, while historical epics like “Schindler’s List” insist that you must. If the latter argues that seeing is believing, the former maintains that seeing wouldn’t help — that some things are too unfathomable for the human eye to comprehend from a distance, and can only hope to be understood by their absence. A tsunami might…
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Jonathan Glazer depicts a happy life for a German Nazi family based in Auschwitz while the horrors of the Holocaust are heard off-screen beyond the walls of their idyllic home in THE ZONE OF INTEREST. A powerfully disturbing & cerebral message backed by Mica Levi’s haunting score, its chilling & wholly unique vision will satisfy arthouse cinema fans. Just when you thought you’ve seen it all in this sub-genre, along comes a singular & breathtaking work of art such as this. Will not be leaving my mind any time soon.
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This movie asks the most terrifying questions to its audience. How do we know when we see evil? How can we know that we are not evil?
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The horrors of Aushwitz heard and seen from inside a families perceived 'perfect home'. The ease and comfort in which these atrocities are committed from the perspective of a man not only committing them, but making them more efficient.
Pacing may not be for everyone but effective in its messaging
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Jonathan Glazer’s THE ZONE OF INTEREST is revelatory and chilling in its precision and specify rendering the cogs and mechanisms required to normalize mass murder. I don’t want to see another movie after it.
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Premieres at Cannes tomorrow.
Truly an honor to work on a Glazer film - easily one of my favorite filmmakers
I usually stay mum on the way I feel about the movies I work on but this is a masterpiece hands down.
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Pro tip: if, by chance, you've made it this far into your distant following of Jonathan Glazer's long-gestating Under the Skin follow-up, The Zone of Interest, without having learned precisely what the film is about... keep it that way. The chilling clarity of the director's vision maintains such a tight psychological grip on the viewer with so little going on that those details are best left discovered in real-time. All you need to know is that Glazer's portrayal of banality in the face of atrocity is every bit the worthy successor to his previous piece of nightmare fuel, albeit an equal success in an entirely different manner.
Not since Chaitanya Tamhane's Court has a director taken such strong influence from…
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completely stunning. finally we get a drama where nazis aren't sympathetic villians in a world with Oscarbait logic. they're irredeemable monsters. the performances in this movie chilled me to my core. really moving picture that reflects on the state of evil regardless if it's the past or present. really beautiful and haunting film.
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“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” - Hannah Arendt
