THE ZONE OF INTEREST
DIRECTED BY: JONATHAN GLAZER | 2023 | 1H 45M | RATED PG-13
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SHOWTIMES Fri, Feb 9th @7:00 PM, 9:00 PM Sat, Feb 10th @2:00PM 4:00PM 6:00PM Sun, Feb 11th @2:00PM 4:00PM 6:00PM Mon, Feb 12th @7:00 PM, 9:00 PM Tues, Feb 13th @7:00 PM, 9:00 PM Thur, Feb 15th @9:00 PM |
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In his chilling, oblique study of evil, acclaimed director Jonathan Glazer situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality.
It’s summer in the mid-1940s, and a German family merrily idles by a river. Father Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and mother Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) tuck their kids in bed at night. They entertain family and guests in their vast backyard garden on the weekends. In the mornings, she oversees chores with a cadre of housekeepers and cooks; he goes to work as head Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Their domestic life is paradisiacal. Yet over the wall abutting their home, there are smokestacks in the distance, and at night there are muffled screams and occasional gunshots.