The Zone of Interest
Where: Prime Video
What: Movie, 105 mins.
When: Now
Genre: Drama
Rating: NNNNN (out of 5)
Why you should watch: This Oscar winner for Best International Film finally comes to a streamer and remains a must-see film as it powerfully explores how easily even holocaust horrors can be normalized by the oppressors. Director Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Under the Skin), who also co-wrote the film, is understated in his approach. The normalcy with which the comandante Rudolph Hoss (Christian Friedel) and his family go about their routine lives as people — Jewish, Romani and others the Nazis deemed undesirable — are murdered daily just steps from their carefully maintained home is the horror revealed in this film. Glazer was the only filmmaker to speak out against the genocide in Gaza at the Oscars, and he has drawn both applause and anger for making the connection between his film and the horrors of today.
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