The Zone of Interest

the vines will grow and cover it all Everything I want to say is in here.

Ella Kemp

Holocaust cinema has so implicitly existed in the shadow of a single question that it would no longer seem worth asking if not for the fact that it’s never been answered: How do you depict an atrocity? The most urgent and indelible examples of the form offer equally simple…

davidehrlich

shaking my head in the theater so ppl know i disagree

xiu_shoegaze

It turned out to be surprisingly fitting to see this film preceded by the final work by Jean-Luc Godard. Godard once declared the end of cinema, but with The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer has built the guillotine. Michael Haneke once famously criticized Schindler's…

esther

the cut directly at the end of this, from the holocaust museum back to Höss traveling down the stairs, sucks the air right out my lungs. history collapsing in on itself, evil surrendering itself to time, unforgivably vile men becoming stories to the slaughters of the…

coffee

Maybe it’s because when you’re Jewish you tend to learn about the Holocaust at a younger age and you keep learning more as life goes on, and maybe Glazer is trying to reach a gentile audience that can’t grasp the banality of evil without seeing it play out. But for me, the…

Matt Goldberg

There is an evil in this world thats impossible to look away from The small details, the tiny blink and miss moments, the daily repetition of life. It’s never been more haunting to watch someone clean or do chores I didn’t flinch, I didn’t move an inch  Don’t make a…

Framesofnick

A chilling directorial achievement with some of the most purposeful sound design I've ever heard. And yet, I couldn't help but feel that the film was very one-note; deliberately so, I'm sure. Even so, the banality of evil can only sustain a horrific on-screen atmosphere for…

James (Schaffrillas)

Made me physically ill. Impossible to watch a movie about casual, bureaucratic genocide without being consumed with horror about what Israel, enabled by America, is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza. The casual, almost offhanded, discussions about mass murder felt…

Casey Malone