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Jonathan Glazer's latest is a Holocaust movie in the same way that his 2013 masterpiece Under the Skin was a sci-fi invasion flick. Loosely adapting Martin Amis’ 2014 novel, writer/director Glazer finds a new way into the historical atrocity that continues to be a source of exploration for filmmakers.
The film's askew view on the horrors of the Auschwitz concentration camp comes from the perspective of the real-life commandant Rudolf Höss's Sandra Hüller), is delighted with the set-up – there's plenty of room for the couple's five children, a spacious garden and areas of bucolic beauty on their doorstop. The unsightly barbed-wire-topped concrete walls that surround the house are not of any real concern; at one point, Hedwig even mentions the flowers she's growing in an attempt to cover them up.
