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Cinema | The Zone of Interest (12A)
Dir: Jonathan Glazer 2023 | 104 mins
Nominated for nine BAFTAs and five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
German and Polish with English subtitles.
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp. Cannes Grand Prix winner 2023, the film is dizzyingly sober and surreal study of the banality of evil, loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis.
‘An unblinking masterpiece’ ***** BBC Film
***** The Telegraph
***** The Times
***** Empire
***** Independent
***** The Guardian
***** The Standard
***** Rolling Stone