There’s no pang of conscience, no redemption. There’s no salvation in this film, and there can’t be. These characters end the way they start.
Zone of Interest, The: Jonathan Glazer’s Groundbreaking Holocaust Drama–No Redemption, No Conscience, Just Routine Banality of Evil
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Zone of Interest, The: Cinematographer Lukasz Zal on “Forgetting Everything I Learned” to Make Harrowing Holocaust Drama
November 22, 2023 by
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.”