Watch: A24’s Behind-the-Scenes Featurette for ‘The Zone of Curiosity’
by Alex Billington
February 2, 2024
Supply: YouTube
“I needed to keep away from the artifice of cinema.” A24 has revealed a behind-the-scenes featurette for The Zone of Curiosity, the Greatest Image nominated Holocaust movie from British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer (of Attractive Beast, Start, Beneath the Pores and skin). It premiered on the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition final 12 months, and after opening in December, ended up with a complete of 5 Oscar nominations – together with Greatest Director and Greatest Sound. This movie is concerning the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his household who stay inside a pleasant home situated adjoining to this horrible focus camp in Poland. It stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller because the couple, with Freya Kreutzkam, Max Beck, Imogen Kogge, Ralph Herforth. On this featurette, Glazer and his Polish DP Łukasz Żal discuss filming this with cameras hidden in the home, and pure lighting, to make it as genuine and immersive as attainable. Sure that is an impressive movie that deserves to be seen on the massive display – to expertise the unsettling sound behind this banality of evil story.
Here is the behind-the-scenes featurette for Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Curiosity, on A24’s YouTube:
You possibly can rewatch the primary trailer for Glazer’s The Zone of Curiosity right here, and the second official trailer right here.
The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his spouse Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), attempt to construct a dream life for his or her household in a home and backyard subsequent to the camp. The Zone of Curiosity is each written and directed by acclaimed British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer, director of the characteristic movies Attractive Beast, Start, and Beneath the Pores and skin beforehand, in addition to many different music movies and shorts. Tailored from the novel of the identical identify written by Martin Amis, printed in 2014. Produced by Ewa Puszczynska and James Wilson. That includes a rating by Mica Levi. This initially premiered on the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition final 12 months (learn our evaluate), the place it received the Grand Prix second place prize. A24 first launched Glazer’s The Zone of Curiosity in choose US theaters beginning on December fifteenth, 2023 final 12 months. Taking part in in cinemas now.
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