Jonathan Glazer Says “Events Of The Last Couple Of Days Have Been Quite Difficult For Everybody” As His Holocaust Film ‘The Zone Of Interest’ Screens At New York Film Festival
deadline.com“The events of the last couple of days have been quite difficult for everybody,” said filmmaker Jonathan Glazer as his film about a Nazi commander at Auschwitz screened Sunday at the New York Film Festival. ‘Zone of Interest,’ Glazer’s first appearance on the NYFF main slate, played after the worst assault on Israel in decades.
Rocket and ground attacks from Gaza over the weekend have killed some 700 Israelis. Retaliation has resulted in over 400 Palestinian casualties so far.
Israel has declared war against Hamas. The Zone of Interest, which won the Cannes Grand Prix Award then screened at Telluride and Toronto,”is about “a subject that I’ve been drawn to and thinking about for many years, actually, before I read the book,” said Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth, Under The Skin) at a Q&A following the screening — referring to the book by the late Martin Amis on which the film is loosely based. “It felt like it was important to somehow dive into.” Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller star as Rudolf Höss, head Commandant of Auschwitz, and his wife Hedwig.
The couple lead an idyllic life in a handsome villa, cavorting with their numerous children at a nearby lake and in their pool and large garden that abuts the wall of the concentration camp.
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