Was just about to post this myself, but you beat me by 7 hours @cloud_loud. I'm slow today. :( p.s. For those not aware of what this film is about... it's an incredibly incredibly dark one:...
Was just about to post this myself, but you beat me by 7 hours @cloud_loud. I'm slow today. :(
p.s. For those not aware of what this film is about... it's an incredibly incredibly dark one:
The commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
Kevin Maher of The Times called it a "landmark movie, hugely important, that's unafraid of difficult ideas." David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter called it a "devastating Holocaust drama like no other, which demonstrates with startling effectiveness [director Jonathan Glazer]'s unerring control of tonal and visual storytelling." Donald Clarke of The Irish Times wrote, "Glazer may yet get in some trouble for taking such a formal approach to sensitive material. But, if anything, that self-imposed discipline – and utter lack of sentimentality – speaks to the profound respect he has for the subject." Raphael Abraham of the Financial Times wrote, "Glazer has achieved something much greater than just making the monstrous mundane — by rendering such extreme inhumanity ordinary he reawakens us to its true horror." Jonathan Romney of Screen International wrote that the film "eschews false rhetoric, leaving maximum space for the audience's imaginative and emotional response.
David Ehrlich of IndieWire praised Glazer's camera process for instilling "a flattening evenness into a film where the lack of drama becomes deeply sickening unto itself." Robbie Collin of The Daily Telegraph wrote, "Through painstaking framing and sound design, its horrors gnaw at the edge of every shot." In a 4-star review, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called it "a film which for all its artistry is perhaps not entirely in control of its (intentional) bad taste."
Yeah I've been waiting for this for a while. It's been in my Oscar predictions ever since it's Cannes premiere. And is currently number 2 on the Metacritic rankings for the year. I'm excited for...
I absolutely loved Under the Skin too, despite it getting a pretty bad reception. And Sexy Beast is an oldie but a goodie as well, IMO. Only film of Glazer's I haven't seen yet is Birth. I'm also...
I absolutely loved Under the Skin too, despite it getting a pretty bad reception. And Sexy Beast is an oldie but a goodie as well, IMO. Only film of Glazer's I haven't seen yet is Birth.
6.8 user score on metacritic, 6.3 on IMDB, and 55% audience score on RT isn't a particularly amazing reception, IMO. Especially when I would personally give it an 8/10. At least the critics all...
6.8 user score on metacritic, 6.3 on IMDB, and 55% audience score on RT isn't a particularly amazing reception, IMO. Especially when I would personally give it an 8/10. At least the critics all seemed to love it though.
I'm going to try and watch this. Höss has always interested me since his portrayal in the Nuremberg film as a regular guy whose job was to kill two thousand people a day and seemed totally morally...
The commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss,
I'm going to try and watch this. Höss has always interested me since his portrayal in the Nuremberg film as a regular guy whose job was to kill two thousand people a day and seemed totally morally unaware of what he was doing. I looked him up and he remained clinically detached from everything he'd done until almost right before his execution, when he expressed remorse.
When accused of murdering three and a half million people, Höss replied, "No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation."
(he recanted this figure later)
Was just about to post this myself, but you beat me by 7 hours @cloud_loud. I'm slow today. :(
p.s. For those not aware of what this film is about... it's an incredibly incredibly dark one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zone_of_Interest_(film)#Premise
And these review are what piqued my interest:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zone_of_Interest_(film)#Critical_response
Yeah I've been waiting for this for a while. It's been in my Oscar predictions ever since it's Cannes premiere. And is currently number 2 on the Metacritic rankings for the year.
I'm excited for it, I'm a big fan of Under the Skin.
I absolutely loved Under the Skin too, despite it getting a pretty bad reception. And Sexy Beast is an oldie but a goodie as well, IMO. Only film of Glazer's I haven't seen yet is Birth.
I'm also a big fan of his music videos too though. Virtual Insanity, Karma Police, Street Spirit, and Rabbit in your Headlights are all iconic classics.
Nah
6.8 user score on metacritic, 6.3 on IMDB, and 55% audience score on RT isn't a particularly amazing reception, IMO. Especially when I would personally give it an 8/10. At least the critics all seemed to love it though.
I'm going to try and watch this. Höss has always interested me since his portrayal in the Nuremberg film as a regular guy whose job was to kill two thousand people a day and seemed totally morally unaware of what he was doing. I looked him up and he remained clinically detached from everything he'd done until almost right before his execution, when he expressed remorse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0hJqNuRH1A