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1 day ago · by Garth Greenwell. If somehow you were to wander into a screening of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023) without knowing what you were getting into, it might take about ten minutes to figure things out. The film opens on a bucolic scene, a group of mostly children sitting in high grass while another group bathes in a river below.
1 day ago · Review: The Zone of Interest. By now everyone knows how director Jonathan Glazer keeps the horrors of the Auschwitz death camp out of sight in his movie about the commandant of the camp, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his family, who live in well-appointed digs right next door. The purpose, of course, is not to show how those horrors ...
2 days ago · From the unnamed Polish girl, to the older Höss son, Klaus (Johann Karthaus), and the youngest Höss, Hans (Luis Noah Witte), each child in The Zone of Interest, is a reflection of human nature ...
3 days ago · The Zone of Interest is a masterful cinematic expression of the “banality of evil,” political philosopher Hannah Arendt’s description of the methodical way in which the Nazis set about to wipe out the Jews of the world.
3 days ago · The Zone of Interest, loosely based on Martin Amis’ book of the same name, has been referred to as two films in one: the film you see and the film you hear. However, it is the ‘third film’, the carefully constructed interplay between the visual and the aural, as well as the bleeding of the ‘here’ and ‘there’, that makes Glazer’s film one of the most viscerally unsettling ...
1 day ago · DP Lukasz Zal (‘The Zone of Interest') to Lens Chloe Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’. Oscar-nominated cinematographer Lukasz Zal (“Cold War,” “Ida,” “The Zone of Interest”) is set to lens Chloé Zhao’s next film, “Hamnet,” with Jessie Buckley & Paul Mescal. Production is set to begin in June. Two of the best Irish actors working today ...
2 days ago · This week, we take a long hard look at Jonathan Glazer's excellent new film The Zone of Interest, then have a chat about some of the more unsettling films we...
