How should cinema tackle the horror of the Holocaust?
Hindustan TimesA 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, whose landmark hit “Schindler’s List” came out 30 years ago—faces a daunting, possibly insuperable challenge. Different as they are in other ways, “The Zone of Interest” and another new release, “One Life”, offer similar solutions. Like many feted Holocaust movies—not just “Schindler’s List” but “The Pianist” and the facile “Life is Beautiful”—“One Life” succumbs to cinema’s bias for redemption over desolation; for a happy ending, or at least survival, over oblivion.
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