Highlights
The Zone of Interest
Preview
Jonathan Glazer
Poland, United Kingdom, United States
THE BANALITY OF EVIL
2023, 106'
VO. German
ST. French
With
Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller
Auschwitz-Birkenau. SS Commandant Rudolf Höss lives with his wife and children in a pavilion with a "heavenly" garden adjoining the camp. A journey into the depths of horror, inspired by the novel by Martin Amis. Astonishing.
"We observe it as if we are unable to identify with it, but are we really so certain of that?". Loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, described as one of the masters of the "new unpleasantness", the film was shot in Poland following extensive documentary research by the filmmaker. We find ourselves at the home of SS Commandant Rudolf Höss. The committed Nazi lives with his family in a house adjoining the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which he runs. Largely behind closed doors, in the heart of the "zone of interest", we rub shoulders with the executioners while the horrors of the camp remain out of sight. The chilling nightmare of the Holocaust as never before depicted. A radical and essential work. The score is by Mica Levi.
Gaëlle Vidalie
Gaëlle Vidalie
Direction
Jonathan Glazer
Screenplay
Jonathan Glazer
Image
Łukasz Żal
Editing
Paul Watts
Sound
Johnnie Burn
Music
Mica Levi
Production
Extreme Emotions (Ewa Puszczyńska), Film4 (Jim Wilson), A24 Films, Access Entertainment
With
Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller
World sales
A24 Films
Friday 10 November |
20:30
