The Zone Of Interest (2023)

Jonathan Glazer directs Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller and Ralph Herforth in this Holocaust art film observing the complicit family who live next to and profit from the Auschwitz Death Camp.

At first I thought it was going to be a coy game of spot the genocide. All middle as we know the beginning and the end. Mica Levi’s soundscape makes you feel nauseous from the off. I’m not sure what the point is but it is impeccably made. I score films based on how much I’d want to rewatch them. This?

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Perfect Double Bill: The Pianist (2002)

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