Five-time Oscar nominee Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s fourth film (Sexual Beast, Birth and Under the Skin) also caused a sensation at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, winning the prestigious Grand Prix. In our cinemas this week, this shocking feature film, which focuses on the daily life of a family living under one wall of the Auschwitz camp, has been very well received by the French press, with an average rating of 4.2 out of 5 (on AlloCiné. 38 media).
It is the best film of 2024, ahead of Iron Claw, Priscilla, La Ferme des Bertrand, Pauvres Créatures and December of May.
What is it about?
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig try to build their dream family life in a house with a garden next to the camp.
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What does the press think?
According to Le Parisien:
“Terrible, of course, an effort, certainly, special and amazing, of course … a huge film.” (Reno Baronian) 5/5
According to Liberation:
“Instead of filming the banality of evil, Jonathan Glazer tells us about the banality of what we do with it. What we failed to do in the past, what we will not do in the future. In the future. , because the history of the Holocaust film has just begun.” (Olivier Lamm) 5/5
According to Defector:
Jonathan Glazer’s powerful, uncomfortable, ‘Zone of Interest’ wonderfully represents the ‘banality of evil’, this eternal and dizzyingly disturbing mirror of our humanity. (Serge Kagansky) 5/5
According to Le Journal du Dimanche:
“A masterpiece of incredible narrative and formal power that inspires wonder.” (Stephanie Belpesch) 5/5
Is Zone of Interest a good movie? What do viewers think of the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix?
According to South West:
“Stunning and disturbing.” (Julien Rousset) 4/5
According to Les Inrockuptibles:
“Since the idea of confiscating and erasing reality is at the heart of the Nazi project, any recording inevitably leads to the derealization of images. Therefore, to derealize this reality is to study as closely as possible the nature of the enterprise of destruction. .” (Ludovic Beau) 4/5
According to Cahiers du Cinéma:
“Glaser then reverses the representational bias: the image records genesis, while the sound seeks the apocalypse. He invents an extremely sophisticated musical score where cries, explosions, voices, murmurs take on new materiality.” (Jean-Marie Samok) 3/5
According to CinemaTeaser:
“A staged gesture as powerful and radical as it is superfluous.” (Aurelien Allin) 3/5
Source: Allocine

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