‘The Zone Of Interest’: Read The Screenplay For Jonathan Glazer’s Searing Holocaust Drama About Humans’ Capacity For Evil
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer‘s historical drama that was inspired loosely by Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name set outside the walls of Auschwitz during the Holocaust.
The A24 film has been a critical smash since its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI prizes and was in the running for the Palme d’Or that was eventually won by Anatomy of a Fall.
The pic, which made the Oscar shortlist as the UK’s submission for this year’s International Feature race, hit U.S. theaters with a qualifying run in December and just had a screening at the United Nations.
It marks Glazer’s first feature film in a decade – since the Scarlett Johansson-starring sci-fi drama Under The Skin in 2013.
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