Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust's evils are cloaked in mundanities
1 year ago

Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust's evils are cloaked in mundanities

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And it's their very mundanity that makes them evil — the “banality of evil,” to use Hannah Arendt’s well-known phrase. In his meticulous and harrowing film “The Zone of Interest,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer has found a way to convey evil without ever depicting the horror itself. Hedwig has found a diamond hidden in a tube — those prisoners are crafty, she says — and so she is “ordering” more toothpaste, again turning the mundane into the truly hideous. She proudly shows off her growing garden, with its small swimming pool and wooden slide, to her visiting mother, who murmurs supportively: “You’ve really landed on your feet, my child.” Hedwig is proud.

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Hearing the Holocaust in ‘The Zone of Interest’
9 months, 1 week ago

Hearing the Holocaust in ‘The Zone of Interest’

Live Mint  

“Did you hear that?” Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss asks a subordinate in German. It’s an example of what makes Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest a uniquely devastating Holocaust film. The first challenge thrown at the viewer is one of sound: a black, empty screen following the film’s title. The home of the Höss family—Rudolf, his wife Hedwig and their …

‘The Zone of Interest’ director condemns war in Gaza as he accepts Oscar for best international film
9 months, 2 weeks ago

‘The Zone of Interest’ director condemns war in Gaza as he accepts Oscar for best international film

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The harrowing Holocaust drama “ The Zone of Interest,” which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won the Academy Award for best international film. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best sound, which it won; best director, which …

'The Zone of Interest' wins Oscar award for best international film
9 months, 2 weeks ago

'The Zone of Interest' wins Oscar award for best international film

New Indian Express  

LOS ANGELES: The harrowing Holocaust drama “ The Zone of Interest,” which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won the Academy Award for best international film. “Our film shows where dehumanization leads, at its worst,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer said. But though it escapes our …

The Zone of Interest review: A hellish, daring spin on more traditional Holocaust movies
10 months, 1 week ago

The Zone of Interest review: A hellish, daring spin on more traditional Holocaust movies

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Taking loose inspiration from a 2014 novel by the late Martin …

The Zone of Interest was Martin Amis’s best novel of the 21st century
10 months, 3 weeks ago

The Zone of Interest was Martin Amis’s best novel of the 21st century

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We wanted to capture the contrast,” says Glazer, “between …

"There will always be Holocaust deniers": How "Zone of Interest" reveals unsettling truths about us
11 months ago

"There will always be Holocaust deniers": How "Zone of Interest" reveals unsettling truths about us

Salon  

“The Zone of Interest,” based on the late Martin Amis’ novel, is a mesmerizing cinematic experience. Johnnie Burn is the film’s sound designer and just received an Oscar nomination for his work on “The Zone of Interest.” He explains, “ the guy who is in charge of the entire process of how the sound is captured for the movie, and …

How should cinema tackle the horror of the Holocaust?
11 months ago

How should cinema tackle the horror of the Holocaust?

Hindustan Times  

A baby is crying, but whose: the one in the nursery or someone else’s child, beyond the garden wall topped with barbed wire? In “The Zone of Interest”, an ambitious new film by Jonathan Glazer, the nursery and the dog belong to Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz. Every director who grapples with the Holocaust—from Mr Glazer to Steven Spielberg, …

‘The Zone of Interest’ took a decade of work. Its director will never be the same
11 months, 2 weeks ago

‘The Zone of Interest’ took a decade of work. Its director will never be the same

LA Times  

To hear him describe it, eyes lighting up and arms blocking out the imaginary space, British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer has a happy place, his small post-production studio in London’s Camden. “And I think the fact that we are in the space together is how we get to where we get, because we are all in conversation with each other and …

The Zone of Interest: A Holocaust movie with a message for our moment.
1 year ago

The Zone of Interest: A Holocaust movie with a message for our moment.

Slate  

Some movies start by telling you how to watch them. In the year of Schindler’s List, Jean-Luc Godard turned down an award from the New York Film Critics Circle on the grounds that he had failed as a filmmaker, offering as proof his inability to “prevent M. Spielberg from rebuilding Auschwitz.” The impulse to add reenactment to the heap of …

Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust’s evils are cloaked in mundanities
1 year ago

Movie Review: In harrowing ‘Zone of Interest,’ the Holocaust’s evils are cloaked in mundanities

Associated Press  

It’s just a woman trying on a fur coat alone in her room, and sampling a lipstick. And it’s their very mundanity that makes them evil — the “banality of evil,” to use Hannah Arendt’s well-known phrase. In his meticulous and harrowing film “The Zone of Interest,” writer-director Jonathan Glazer has found a way to convey evil without ever depicting …

'The Zone of Interest' named best film of the year by Los Angeles Film Critics Association
1 year ago

'The Zone of Interest' named best film of the year by Los Angeles Film Critics Association

The Independent  

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Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective
1 year, 7 months ago

Jonathan Glazer rocks Cannes with a chilling Holocaust drama from a different perspective

Associated Press  

CANNES, France — Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling Auschwitz-set drama shot through “a 21st century lens,” has delivered the Cannes Film Festival’s first critical sensation by approaching the Holocaust from an unlikely perspective. “The Zone of Interest,” loosely based on a Martin Amis novel, rigorously follows the family’s daily lives while atrocity thrums next door. “The Zone …

The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust 'masterpiece'
1 year, 7 months ago

The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust 'masterpiece'

BBC  

The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust 'masterpiece' A24 Under the Skin and Sexy Beast director Jonathan Glazer has made "a blood-freezing treatise on the banality of evil", writes Nicholas Barber – and it's proved a hit at Cannes, where it received a six-minute standing ovation. The women's quiet, middle-class chit-chat could hardly be …

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