To film The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing Holocaust drama–and major Oscar contender–about the domestic life of an Auschwitz commandant and his family, Polish cinematographer Lukasz Zal had to “forget everything I was taught” about making “beautiful images.”
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The strange, twisted, dark source material, adapted to the screen by Glazer and Wlater Campbell, is most suitable for the director’s offbeat and idiosyncratic sensibility.