Topic: | "The Zone of Interest" | |
Posted by: | Joe Conneely | |
Date/Time: | 03/02/24 18:36:00 |
As I was leaving the Saturday screening in Chiswick, a cinema attendant asked me if it was a "good film", to which my immediate response was: "It's certainly memorable but not a film I would apply the word "good" to!" I do not know the Martin Amis novel on which the film is based but the "Zone of Interest' (being the German historic phrase applied to the Auschwitz concentration camp and its immediate environment), avoids any sight of the camp's interior. Instead, it only features in the distant background (visually and continual background sounds) with most of the film's actions taking place in the family home and grounds of the camp commandant Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel), located just outside the camp's wall perimeter. With his wife (played by Sandra Huller, the star of the 2023 film "Anatomy of a Fall"), what the film depicts too well is the extreme ordinariness of the people involved, keen to maximise their enjoyable family lifestyle and status while ensuring obliviousness to what is going on nearby. The other element shown is the depiction of the mass murders of Jews being run as an efficient industrial process, with Hoss clearly being a keen technical manager but not very smart at the management politics. The film’s director and script writer, Jonathan Glazer, himself a Jew, has made a more thought-provoking film than most other Holocaust films I have seen. |
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