'Disturbing' Oscar winning WWII film leaves Amazon Prime Video
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Amazon Prime Video has confirmed its latest wave of departures, including a British-made WWII film that Steven Spielberg once called "the best Holocaust movie I've witnessed since my own".
This is a film that's unlike any other; rather than showing the unimaginable horror of the event, you hear it, glimpse the fringes of it, and witness the evil of indifference.
It is a gut-wrenching, disturbing, unsettling experience unlike any other regarding the Holocaust and it's a film that challenges you as a viewer, as it's deliberate in what it chooses to show and what it doesn't.
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The official synopsis states: "In 1943, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife, Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house right next to the concentration and extermination camp he helped create."
Critics lauded the film upon release, with Variety penning: "It's a remarkable film — chilling and profound, meditative and immersive, a movie that holds human darkness up to the light and examines it as if under a microscope.
"In a sense, it's a movie that plays off our voyeurism, our curiosity to see the unseeable. Yet it does so with a bracing originality.
Time Out wrote: "It's a stunning film – thoughtful, challenging and disturbing."
Robbie Collin of The Telegraph also stated: ''To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric', Theodor Adorno famously wrote.
"Glazer's film gives us the prosaic instead, refashioning it into the darkest, most vital sort of art it might be possible for us as a species to produce."
While Screen Daily also added: "The Zone of Interest is a challenging rather than conventionally provocative film but, by any measure, essential viewing and a work that will be a vital focus of discussion both in the cinephile world and beyond."
It wasn't just the critics that were floored by the film, as Schindler's List filmmaker Steven Speilberg also praised it.
"The Zone of Interest is the best Holocaust movie I've witnessed since my own. It's doing a lot of good work in raising awareness, especially about the banality of evil," he commented.
It became the first international feature winner for the UK at the Oscars 2024.
It also took home three awards from the BAFTAs: Best Sound, Outstanding British Film, and Best Film Not in the English language.
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