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Film Review - The Zone of Interest

Film Review - The Zone of Interest

Not an easy watch, but Jonathan Glazer's bone-chilling Holocaust drama is singular, brilliant, and downright essential

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Feb 01, 2024
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As far as I’m concerned, there can never be too many films about the Holocaust. This one is a particularly unusual, singular specimen. Based on a novel by Martin Amis, The Zone of Interest details the minutiae of life in the commandant’s villa next to Auschwitz, in the latter days of World War II. Said villa is occupied by Rudolf Höss (Christ…

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