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The Zone of Interest: Jonathan Glazer’s film based loosely on Martin Amis’s novel is beautiful and terrible

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In 2015 Son of Saul, by Hungarian director László Nemes, came to , winning the director the Grand Jury Prize. This year sees Jonathan Glazer’s incredible German-language in competition. While the former takes place in a concentration camp and is seen from a prisoner’s perspective within the inner circles of that particular hell, The Zone of Interest shows concentration camp life from the other side of the barbed wire. But it is no

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