FILM REVIEW
The Zone of Interest review — Holocaust film masterfully reinvents Martin Amis novel
Cannes Film Festival
The film opens with a vision of rural bliss
★★★★★
One of the final gifts that Martin Amis bestowed upon us was the source novel for this masterful movie adaptation from Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast). Though the finished film departs radically from the book’s tale of a Nazi officer smitten by the wife of a camp commandant in Auschwitz, it nonetheless captures the conspicuous indifference with which those same protagonists treat the genocide around them.
The movie, Glazer’s first feature since Under the Skin in 2013, is easily his most mature work, and marks the return of a major British film-making talent. He opens the film with a vision of rural bliss, as a robust German family bathe in a lake and hike through woodland, like something from Deutsche Mythologie. This
