Jonathan Glazer, Sandra Hüller & Christian Friedel on The Zone of Interest | NYFF61

Director Jonathan Glazer, stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, sound designer Johnnie Burn, and producer James Wilson joined us at NYFF61 to discuss sound design, physicality, and the morality of portraying the Holocaust in The Zone of Interest, a Main Slate selection in this year’s festival, with NYFF61 programmer and FLC Senior Director of Programming Florence Almozini.
In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality: the domestic routine of a Nazi Commandant, his wife, and their kids, while death and violence occur against those imprisoned in Auschwitz over the wall from their idyllic house. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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[@gogigaga1677]

MOVIE OF THE YEAR BY FAR PROBABLY ONE OF THE GREATEST FILM OF THE 21ST CENTURY I VE SEEN. IM SO GLAD I GOT TO SEE IT TWICE WHILE BEING ABLE TO READ THE BOOK IN BETWEEN AND TO READ MORE ON THE SUBJECT. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT FILM I VE EVER SEEN AND "HEARD" THE CINEMATOGRAPHY IS ASTONISHING WHILE BEING EXTREMELY COLD. THE SOUNDTRACK IS HAUNTING MICA LEVI HAS TO BE ONE OF THE FINSST MUSICIAN WORKING ON MOVIES RIGHT NOW. WAITED 10 YEARS FOR A GLAZER MOVIE WAS WORTH IT. FOR ME ITS THE WORK OF SOMEONE WHO HAS MASTERED IS CRAFT I THINK ITS BEST YET. IF YOU CAN WHEN YOU CAN GO SEE ITS THIS MOVIE IS MINDBLOWING.

[@jcc389]

OK I WILL

[@jcc389]

THANK YOU

[@williammckenna3903]

I COMPLETELY AGREE 😊

[@velkykoblyh8065]

Bro chill😆 agreed tho

[@rics1883]

I’d have gone with caps off

[@jakeellerbrake756]

Unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Truly transcendent.

[@eximmt]

I would strongly recommend 'The White Ribbon' directed by Michael Haneke to anyone who was moved by this movie. It has similar themes regarding the normalization of atrocious behavior. Christian Friedel also plays the main character.

[@magustef8710]

"Die WannseeKonferenz"Ger. von 2022.

[@nickwyatt9498]

Such a shame Martin Amis died before he could see this brilliant adaptation of his novel.

[@TheSenatorXV]

Having seen it twice in theatres already, I can say that this movie is just as good as the amazing Come and See (which I've seen already 5 times now). Both make you leave feeling as the director mensions; unsafe. Both are from an observed yet still emotional perspective, where the shocking nature and value of the art is solely the content itself. Everything is presented and you're to observe and think aboit it. Absolutely brilliant, so well done!

[@christinekeavey7893]

I'm devotee of both and always recommending them to others.

[@stockbag]

Made 'Schindler's List' look like a circus performance. People left the cinema silent and in awe.

[@HEAVYHEARTSMUSIC]

What did it make Son of Saul look like?

[@mirfir]

Up there!

[@ManGoatHamburger]

@@HEAVYHEARTSMUSICThe director of Son of Saul has told Glazer to shut up for being the wrong kind of Jew. This is the genius of Hamas: they’ve turned the world against Israel and they’ve turned Jews against each other.

[@zachydan]

this film punched me in the face what came out was non stop crying from evening till morning. it’s so real.

[@thundercheeks1989]

Affected me about as powerfully as art can

[@circularsky]

And then you went straight home & did nothing about the current genocide being directly supported by your government.

[@johnmurphy0927]

Hoping the second Q&A was filmed and is added as well. I was in awe of the film and couldn’t even process the Q&A afterwards.

[@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198]

Not sure it was. some iphones held high ... No cameras on stage. good Q & A too

[@johnmurphy0927]

@@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198 That's disappointing. You'd think they'd want to document all their Q&As simply for their own historical records.

[@johnmurphy0927]

@@talesfromtinpanalley-thedo6198 In case you missed it, the second Q&A was officially recorded/released: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGfGeJeciq-qabs

[@kdciiiesq]

Looking forward to it.

[@NorthDallasForty.]

Looking forward to Zone of Interest

[@NorthDallasForty.]

When will trailer launch ? Martin Amis novel was beyond brilliant

[@mirfir]

Saw this film last night! Omg… incredible! 😢😮 it’s up there w Schindler’s List! It’s like a massive snapshot of Auschwitz commandmant & their family life.

[@tarnopol]

Most of Israeli society and its supporters around the world are living in the zone of interest. Most of us right now are living in the zone of interest with respect to carbon.

[@jbrgde]

Lolllllllll carbon….just stop

[@tarnopol]

@@jbrgde Enjoy being a mass murderer in your denialism? It doesn’t solve any of your personal problems but it does make you a dupe for for rich old sociopaths who laugh at your gullibility-and control you like a marionette.

[@tarnopol]

@@jbrgde I see you’re in favor of destroying your children’s lives> What a gem you are.

[@alexkova8548]

The most interesting question was a bit dismissed - how do they process this movie as German actor/actress? It would be interesting to hear how they handle this, because in the end, probably this is something that relates to their grandfathers and grandmothers. As a person from PL I am curious how Germans talk about 2 war and Holocaust. But the question seemed rude/ inappropriate/ too big to answer? Is there any source where they discuss this? I think it is very brave for them both to took part in this movie.I love to see that there is still some relfection on what happened here 80 years ago. Not so long ago! My grandfather was in a soldier camp too, it wasn't a death camp, however it certianly did affect life of my family. I wonder what is their story.

[@flop7217]

I'm german and i read a few times and also heard in a radio interview for NDR that sandra hueller doesn't want to talk about what her private thoughts were to be there and what it means to her and how she felt on a personal level. She says its no ones business and it really evokes the feeling that she is touched by all of that in a very deep way. I mean there was a reason why she never wanted to portray such a character and it was also her choice to leave hedwig hoess completely ,empty' as a charakter - she once stated because she thought hedwig hoess is not worth it. She openly spesks out against any sort of facism in interviews. But actually hueller never really shares private details about her. To give an example - the dog in zone of interest is her own dog. But she wouldn't even share the name in public.

[@paulvalery9778]

"So, thats not many films" lol, nice zinger

[@annakarenina4832]

The Banality of Evil.

[@gavinkerslake]

the avoidance of 'cinema/glamour/fetish' is the thing I'm looking forward to the most. out in AU February 2024.

[@qotsashfifty4]

let us know what you think

[@AnthonyGilbert12]

um

[@Jacksirrom]

thinking about the hoss family living in luxury right besides/among a captive, slaughtered population. seems a lot like those living next to gaza.

[@veryeyeofnight]

But why is she denying her character any empathy or humanity? This is reductive. The people who committed those atrocities were humans, that's the point. Painting them as incapable of emotions is dangerous because it's by definition detached from anything remotely human.

[@Lagrangeify]

I didn't take it as her denying the character possessing any, rather that she had to suppress how she herself felt about it in order to play the role. Jonathan Glazer adds that "in order to think, one has to stop" and I think that's an important theme of the book. How does a pencil pushing bureaucrat murder other peoples children by the hundreds of thousands and then kiss their own on the forehead and wish them sweet dreams? Perhaps one thing about it that we can definitively conclude is that there is a coping strategy being employed and we all possess that skillset.

[@ooooooo679]

Looking fwd to this the book was amazing