The Zone Of Interest is a historical drama about the domestic life of the commandant of Auschwitz.
The cast is all very talented and gives shallow reprehensible(ie realistic) performances but the whole endeavor begs the question, to what end? What is the point? This kind of investigation of the Nazi machine has been done many many times since 1993's Schindler's List brought cinema about the Holocaust into mainstream Hollywood and this doesn't do anything particularly new or inventive and doesn't have anything particularly new to say or observe.
Immaculately shot, impeccably costumed, successfully scored writer/director Jonathan Glazer is unquestionably a superb craftsman but as a storyteller this leaves a lot to be desired and doesn't have any of the formal inventiveness Glazer displayed in his last feature Under The Skin. The whole rigmarole begs the question- why? But never musters the energy to answer it.
Incredible artists produce a profoundly uninspired script.
Currently in theaters, coming soon to VOD.
Don't See It.
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