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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: Martin Amis, Jonathan Glazer
- 2023
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 45 m
- 2023
- PG-13
- A24
- 1 h 45 m
The Zone of Interest
7.4
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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: Martin Amis, Jonathan Glazer
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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
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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 160 User Ratings
7.4
76% Positive
122 Ratings
122 Ratings
11% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
13% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 160 User Ratings
7.4
76% Positive
122 Ratings
122 Ratings
11% Mixed
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
13% Negative
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
A masterpiece. Chilling. Affects one profoundly in a way never expected. This film will stay with you for days and once you have been able to return to a normal emotional state, you will find it has affected you and changed you forever.
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Adorei esse filme, ele é excelente e fala muito bem sobre a banalidade do mal e seu som é impecável, com certeza é o melhor filme que já vi nesse ano de 2024 até agora.
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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.
Easily the most challenging film of this year's awards race, "The Zone Of Interest" is borderline directionless as a narrative, practically emotionless as a character study and devoid of nearly any sort of "entertainment value" whatsoever— and that's precisely the point. This is a sterile, cold and unfeeling glimpse at the terrifyingly human individuals behind one of history's greatest atrocities and it's certified to make your skin crawl. Jonathan Glazer really outdid himself here in how he went about making this. In fact, the ways in which this film was crafted (namely the sound design, which absolutely deserved its Academy Award nomination, by the way) actually makes for a more fulfilling story than the one at the center of this film. Sometimes I couldn't help but feel like the movie's only real trick was the whole "can you believe all of this is happening next door to these people?" dichotomy and, for the first few times, it's potent and provocative. After a while, though, it loses its luster. That's not to say this is a bad movie or anything. Just one I ended up appreciating more than enjoying and I'm sure if you were to ask Jonathan Glazer, he'd say that's exactly the place he wants his audience to be.
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Hard to even rate, you do have to sit through some uninteresting stretches to get to the effective ideas and moments. But is effective in its weird ways.
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The Zone of Uninterest, more like. What a snooze-fest! Nothing noteworthy occurs throughout the entire runtime. This film is a one-trick pony, and it's an impressively mundane trick.
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Cannot judge this movie cause it's a puddle of purposes never accomplished, a sort of biopic, horror movie and historical product that lead you nowhere. Direction is not that bad, but storyline is somewhat nonsense, there are some illogical sequences. You cannot explain history with movies you need to read a huge amount of book to have a correct point of view, you cannot just direct trying to tell whatever you want cause you think it works...
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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
