'The Zone of Interest' took a decade of work. Its director will never be the same
LOS ANGELES — To hear him describe it, eyes lighting up and arms blocking out the imaginary space, British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer has a happy place, his small postproduction studio in London's Camden. "It's like a lab, actually," he says, "just a room, but this size — a bit bigger. Twice the height. There's a little mezzanine level up there, screen on the wall."
Glazer then drops in his collaborators, a dream team: "Mica's writing, Paul's cutting, I'm making the tea," he continues, referring to Mica Levi, the inspired, once-in-a-generation composer who Glazer first worked with on 2013's "Under the Skin," and Paul Watts, his longtime editor who dates back to their videos with Massive Attack and the Dead Weather. "We're moving around, with one person informing the other."
Meanwhile, sound designer , also recently of "Nope" and "Poor Things," is on video hookup all day from Brighton, sharing ideas, trying out remixes on the fly. Watts is eating a sandwich. "It's all very like that," Glazer says. "And I think the fact that we are in the space together is how we get to where we get, because we are
