The Zone of Interest (2023)

Some extra fun this month as we explore the rest of what we haven’t seen amongst the 2024 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINATIONS. Well, we’re skipping the fun for this particular week because we finally get to the disturbing and unsettling Jonathan Glazer film about the Holocaust that centers specifically on its perpetrators. Perpetrators with wives and children and pets. Husbands who seek to rise within the mundane bureaucracy of an ethnostate that administers horror just on the other side of a wall. You can’t see it but you can hear it. Thank god only the characters in the film could smell it but too many seemed rather used to it. Glazer said his new film, “THE ZONE OF INTEREST” starring Christian Friedel & Sandra Hüller, is about the present. Where we find ourselves in the present, drifting along the wake of the holocaust’s legacy, leaves us with plenty to ponder and a surprising amount to observe. The past isn’t so far gone. It has a way of catching up.

 

THE ZONE OF INTEREST’s Oscar Nominations:

Best Picture

Best International Feature

Best Director

Best Writing / Adapted Screenplay

Best Sound

 

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