‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz
The TelegraphAt a small north London cinema in the spring of 2014, Jonathan Glazer’s family and friends filed into the auditorium to watch their boy’s latest film. As the credits rolled, 108 minutes later, just after Johansson’s alien temptress had been burnt alive in a forest by her would-be rapist, Glazer’s family filed back out to meet the director in the foyer. Glazer had two researchers spend four months digging in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, recording every detail they could find about the family’s life, spent in a house whose well-tended garden abutted the concentration camp’s boundary wall. Over coffee in the drawing room of a London hotel, Glazer explains that it took Amis’s book to “unlock something” in his mind – an idea for a film about the Holocaust that asks the audience to recognise themselves in its perpetrators rather than the victims.
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