Review: "The Zone of Interest" is an endurance test worth taking

A powerful, and powerfully moral, contemplation of evil

Jan 28, 2024

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Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. It is also one of the most profoundly – and provocatively – moral.

Glazer’s film contemplates the horror of Auschwitz and the mechanized genocide of the Holocaust from the vantage point of commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, within the Edenic estate they ha…

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