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- 2023
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 45 m
Summary 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.
Directed By: Jonathan Glazer
Written By: Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis
- 2023
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 45 m
The Zone of Interest
7.3
Summary 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.
Directed By: Jonathan Glazer
Written By: Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 58 Critic Reviews
92
93% Positive
54 Reviews
54 Reviews
5% Mixed
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3 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 58 Critic Reviews
92
93% Positive
54 Reviews
54 Reviews
5% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Glazer’s film is marked by supremely judged restraint.
Grounded and yet also experimental, cold at some points and intimate at others, The Zone of Interest is one of the year’s most deliberately challenging films, unafraid to explore one of humanity’s darkest moments from some unexpected angles.
The point of this overwhelming film—that depraved insanity sometimes goes undetected because of its unexpected mediocrity—has a chilling impact that seems, in the terrifying power politics of our world today, more egregiously relevant than ever.
It’s a remarkable film — chilling and profound, meditative and immersive, a movie that holds human darkness up to the light and examines it as if under a microscope. In a sense, it’s a movie that plays off our voyeurism, our curiosity to see the unseeable. Yet it does so with a bracing originality.
The Zone of Interest insists that all of history’s most abominable moments have been permitted by people who didn’t have to see them, and while the film’s ultimate staying power has yet to be determined, its vision of normality is — as Hannah Arendt once described that phenomenon — “more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”
The Zone of Interest is a gloriously original work and a boldly experimental addition to the canon of high-calibre Holocaust cinema.
Maybe Glazer’s movie will be of use to people naïve enough to believe that nobody without horns and a pitchfork can be the devil. Everybody else will learn nothing from this film.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 167 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
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127 Ratings
11% Mixed
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13% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 167 User Ratings
7.3
76% Positive
127 Ratings
127 Ratings
11% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
13% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
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Production Company
A24,
Access Entertainment,
Film4,
JW Films,
Extreme Emotions,
House Productions,
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej,
Silesian Film Fund
Release Date Dec 15, 2023
Duration 1 h 45 m
Rating PG-13
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 3 Wins & 9 Nominations