Jonathan Glazer just delivered the first instant sensation of the Cannes Film Festival. \u2018The Zone of Interest\u2019, the English director\u2019s fourth feature film after \u2018Sexy Beast\u2019, \u2018Birth\u2019 and \u2018Under the Skin\u2019, earned a six-minute standing ovation following its world premiere, reports \u2018Variety\u2019. This has been the most rapturous response at Cannes so far.
Glazer\u2019s film is austere and challenging as it tells the story of the commandant of Auschwitz and his wife, who have created their dream home directly next to the concentration camp.
The constant screams of prisoners, gun shots and smoke from the gas chambers haunt their paradise, but their indifference to such horrors creates a terrifying and sinister juxtaposition, \u2018Variety\u2019 notes.
Loosely based on the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, \u2018Variety\u2019 says \u2018The Zone of Interest\u2019 tells the story of Rudolf Hoss, a Nazi commandant who designed and built Auschwitz. It also looks at his relationship with his wife Hedwig, as they create their dream life directly next door to the concentration camp.
In crafting a portrait of the Holocaust, Glazer says he conducted an \u201cenormous amount of research\u201d to capture the divide between the Hoss family\u2019s mundane domestic dramas and Auschwitz, which lies on the other side of the garden walls.
The director described an intention to capture \u201cthe capacity within each of us for violence, wherever you are from\u201d. In the case of \u2018The Zone of Interest\u2019, that meant portraying Nazis as people and not as stereotypical monsters.
\u201cThe great crime and tragedy is that human beings did this to other human beings,\u201d Glazer said, according to \u2018Variety\u2019. \u201cIt\u2019s very convenient to distance ourselves from them as much as we can, because we think we don\u2019t behave that way, but we should be less certain than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jonathan Glazer just delivered the first instant sensation of the Cannes Film Festival. \u2018The Zone of Interest\u2019, the English director\u2019s fourth feature film after \u2018Sexy Beast\u2019, \u2018Birth\u2019 and \u2018Under the Skin\u2019, earned a six-minute standing ovation following its world premiere, reports \u2018Variety\u2019. This has been the most rapturous response at Cannes so far.Glazer\u2019s film is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":349186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}