Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, instantly hailed as a masterpiece upon the conclusion of its first screenings in Cannes last Friday, finds the British filmmaker once again engineering a vehicle with which to burrow beneath viewers' skin. After opening his previous film, an adaptation of Michel Faber's 2000 sci-fi novel Under the Skin, with an on-screen reminder of cinema's intrinsic visuality--darkness, then pulsating orbs and, finally/explicitly, a dilating pupil--here Glazer turns to t...
Cannes 2023: The Zone of Interest, Killers of the Flower Moon, May December
Filmmaker Magazine - 22 May 2023 15:29
Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, instantly hailed as a masterpiece upon the conclusion of its first screenings in Cannes last Friday, finds the British filmmaker once again engineering a vehicle with which to burrow beneath viewers' skin. After opening his previous film, an adaptation of Michel Faber's 2000 sci-fi novel Under the Skin, with an on-screen reminder of cinema's intrinsic visuality--darkness, then pulsating orbs and, finally/explicitly, a dilating pupil--here Glazer turns to t...
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