The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
Exceptional camera framing and sound design capture people going about their every day lives while some of the most horrific atrocities ever committed exist just beyond the frame, barely (but constantly) within audible range. Mowing lawns, swimming in pools, smelling flowers, celebrating birthdays, striving for promotions—all manners of the mundanities of human existence press forward while the soundtrack of absolute evil echoes in the distance. This film may be one note, but it is a powerful note that crescendo’s loudest in it’s final shots. The human ability to zone out the atrocities happening all around us is not unique to that time period or even to the nazi regime. Incredibly strong directorial vision from Jonathan Glazer.