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This review was originally published on May 22, 2023.
Atthe 2024 Oscars,The Zone of Interestwon two awards, including Best International Feature.
He gives us the person pouring their coffee, but only hints at the terrors beyond the wall.
And yet, his film is so psychologically searing it borders on the unwatchable.
(Under the Skinwas ten years ago;Birth, his previous feature, was 2004.
Glazer takes his time with these projects.)
It opens with a lengthy, bucolic image of a picnic beside a placid lake.
Women talk about trying on dresses and coats that once belonged to Jewish families.
Ill go on a diet, says one when remarking that one coat doesnt fit her.
Guess where I found this diamond?
someone asks at one point.
They wonder if shes in there.
But Glazer knows to develop the idea without abandoning his rigor.
Hedwigs mother, who is staying with her daughter, finds herself unable to sleep.
Later, he has a mysterious bout of nonstop vomiting.
One of Rudolfs daughters constantly sleepwalks.
One world is constantly bleeding into the other.
When Rudolf gets a promotion to the head office in Berlin, he and Hedwig quarrel.
She doesnt want to leave.
In its own sly and subtly devastating way,The Zone of Interestpulls us into its circle of evil.
