The Zone of Interest
Directed by Jonathan GlazerThe commandant of Auschwitz and his wife strive to build a dream life for their family in a house next to the camp.
The Zone of Interest Ratings & Reviews
- DarylOctober 8, 2025There are no words I have to describe this film...'its chilling' would be an understatement. A must watch
- Morgan_815April 10, 2025,,the Zone of Interest” reveals the horror of human nature not trough violence,but silence. Beneath blooming gardens and warm sunlight,sunlight,unspeakable cruelty festers-ignored,unseen. Colors become a mask,softening the edge of atrocity. Against this emptiness, justice feels like a ghost-present,but powerless. Glazer show us that the darkest evil wears the calmest face.
- MrTrivetSeptember 15, 2025In The Zone of Interest, the horror does not come from what is seen, but from what is heard. Beyond the fence of the Höss family’s idyllic home, the machinery of death never sleeps - a system working tirelessly on its final product. Tragedy becomes the backdrop of the film’s events, coloring domestic affairs with the screams of people, the shots of rifles, the drone of industrial chimneys. It is a film about people who normalize evil, who grow accustomed to it, who are able to function in its presence without a shadow of doubt. The heavy, droning soundtrack seeps under the skull, amplifying tension in places where the image itself seems almost indifferent. With each scene, emotions shift into a growing unease, difficult to name - something between suffocation and dread.
- Kevin WardJuly 2, 2025Exceptional 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.
- PatrikStarMarch 26, 2025Incredible movie, incredible sound design. Will never watch it again.
- burtjohansonFebruary 5, 2025Perhaps the most violent movie I have ever seen - all done without a single frame of violence onscreen. Haunting is the only word that fits. Best experienced in the theater or in a dark, quiet room at home with noise cancelling headphones.
- Rowan KrzysiakJanuary 6, 2025It seems a bit wrong to judge this as entertainment at all given the subject matter but, there was a lot of hoo-ha about it so I was kinda excited going in. That said, I personally found it a bit boring and was disappointed. I get it and get what it was doing and for some it's likely an emotional sucker punch, sadly for me it wasn't.
