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☆ Opinion | The Oscar Contender That Won’t Let Us Look Away
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( David Klion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Any filmmaker trying to draw meaning from the Holocaust onscreen faces potential pitfalls. Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a dark horse candidate for best picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday, avoids all of these traps and finds something new and profoundly unsettling to say about the Holocaust. “Zone” is ostensibly about the genocide of European Jewry, but its focus is not on the Jewish victims, who remain almost entirely offscreen. Rather, Mr. Glazer exposes the perpetrators to the scrutiny of the audience’s gaze. “Zone” depicts the life of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, and his family at their handsome estate just outside the walls of the death camp.

Persons: Agnieszka Holland’s, Roberto Benigni’s, you’re, Claude Lanzmann, ” Steven Spielberg’s, Jonathan Glazer’s, Spielberg, I’ve, Glazer, Rudolf Höss Locations: Auschwitz

TORONTO (AP) — Three generations of a Ukrainian family sit in a van in the documentary “In the Rearview.” They stare straightforward, staggered by all they’ve left behind. “I come from an aristocratic family,” one woman says in the film. The biggest battleground isn’t just a war zone but the home. In recent years, Canada has reckoned with its past treatment of Indigenous people, including heinous sterilization programs and forced-schooling systems. “Coming to New Zealand, being Māori, we don’t see enough of ourselves on screen,” Waititi said.

Persons: ”, “, Maciek Hamela’s van, Um Tae, Lee Byung, Ly’s, ” Ly, Oscar, Les, Alexis Manenti, Cameron Bailey, Waititi, ” Waititi, ” Hollywood’s, ” Andrew Haigh’s “, —, Cord, Jeffrey Wright, Hayao, Miyazaki, Alexander Payne’s “, Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa —, Agnieszka Holland’s “, Raoul Peck’s “, James Baldwin, –, Melvin, Peck, William Tecumseh Sherman, Garrison Frazier, Jonathan Glazer, Rudolf Höss, Christian Friedel, Hedwig, Sandra Hüller, Glazer, Nikolaj Arcel’s “, Mads Mikkelsen, Jonathan Demme’s, David Byrne, Jake Coyle Organizations: TORONTO, Toronto, America Samoa soccer team, “, Twitter Locations: Ukraine, Seoul, South Korea, Paris, Batiment, France, Canada, America, New Zealand, ” Toronto, Venice, New England, Belarus, Poland, Haitian, North Carolina, Georgia, Auschwitz, Denmark, Jutland Heath

ROME (AP) — “Poor Things,” a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, won the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely deprived of Hollywood glamour because of the writers and actors strikes. The film, starring Emma Stone, won the top prize at the 80th edition of the festival, which is often a predictor of Oscar glory. The film tells the story of two young boys’ odyssey from Dakar, Senegal, to the detention camps in Libya and finally across the Mediterranean to Europe. Peter Sarsgaard won best actor for “Memory,” in which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a film about high schoolers reuniting. Cailee Spaeny won best actress for “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola's portrait of the private side of Priscilla and Elvis Presley.

Persons: Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos, Stone, ” Lanthimos, Alasdair Gray’s, Bella Baxter, Matteo Garrone, Seydou Sarr, Agnieszka Holland’s “, Peter Sarsgaard, Jessica Chastain, Sarsgaard, Cailee Spaeny, “ Priscilla, ” Sofia, Priscilla, Elvis Presley, Damien Chazelle, Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen, Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras, Shu Qi Organizations: ROME, Lion, Venice Film Locations: Venice, Europe, Dakar, Senegal, Libya, Polish, Belarus, Shu

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