Production and cast are solid on a TV-movie scale. The Zone of Interest reminds me of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; the latter one is far more suspenseful and entertaining (despite the serious theme), and last but not least, the way better movie. Final words: an interesting experiment...
The Zone of Interestpresents a near-constant negotiation between what we see and what we hear—and what we unavoidably imagine—going on just beyond the Höss property walls. Sound designer Johnnie Burn implants an ever-present whir that reverberates in the spectator’s body, reminding us tha...
the movie dramatizes the lives of the hösses, whose patriarch rudolph (played by christian friedel ) was a real-life commandant at auschwitz. the family lived right next door to the camp, sticking to their lavish routines as genocide occurred just over their garden wall. in glazer’s ...
but I don't recall that Israeli tanks reached the Jordanian/Iraqi border during the 1967 war, so they could not have possibly destroyed the Oasis there. I consider myself left of centre when it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, but this movie certainly did not do anything for me in th...
ordinary school teacher. and so this was the search. yes, he wears this uniform. yes, he is the commandant of auschwitz. but i think the most important thing to me is that this is about us . a nazi could be anyone, in a way. the movie was shot in poland, in a house near ausch...
very close to the original house. And there was a time I realized, ‘Oh, I forget where I am’ — I was shocked how easy it is to forget. And this is, for me, the most important thing in this movie — it’s so easy to ignore [what’s around us]. We are ma...
I give this two stars for the Dr. Caligari like set design and a funny profane ABC song. The rest of it is unwatchable would be wanna be but ain't cult movie. Though it's in bad taste to mention this the main topless woman (and she's topless for the whole movie) has one breast...
The final moment, where they march up and out of the wrecked Stockton house, surely never again to speak to the Stocktons - or each other - is a headshaker. A point of interest is the presence of one of the actors, a man who later won two Academy awards. Jack Albertson took home...
But if The Monk and the Gun repeats that feat, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone; the movie is just that good. Taking place on the eve of Bhutan’s 2006 transition from monarchy to democracy, The Monk and the Gun is a funny, breezy, and ultimately moving look at a ...
The Van Voorhis narration was stodgy and the titles look like something out of a B movie. It was soon changed to a series of landscapes fading in and out, and with a different narrator. Who'd have thought that the series’ creator would have the perfect voice? But it only made sense...