The grand prize for The Zone of Interest via Jonathan Glazer, the enfant terrible of British cinema

The grand prize is offered to the movie The Zone of Interest through Briton Jonathan Glazer. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP

The fourth characteristic movie through this director who came from tune videos and advertising tells the horror of Auschwitz without showing it.

It turned into our palme d’or. In The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer adapts Martin Amis’ novel set in Auschwitz in his relentless and chilling manner. The film describes the daily existence of a Nazi own family housed right subsequent to the camp and indifferent to the horror. At the cease of the lawn, loss of life is signaled by means of shouts and business noises. The banality of evil in all its horror. The 58-yr-vintage director has consequently just been offered the Grand Prix. Fourth function movie in a career that started out twenty-three years ago, it turned into the Briton’s first look on the Cannes Film Festival.

Jonathan Glazer cultivates a amazing sense of suspense and advertising. Before Cannes, we simplest knew that The Zone of Interest was inspired by way of the radical by way of Martin Amis, who has simply died. “I changed into supplied to do a casting without telling me for which filmtold us the actress Sandra Hüller in Cannes. We don’t have this flavor for secrecy in Germany so it turned into apparent that it changed into a overseas director. I first read three or 4 pages without knowing what it turned into about exactly. I then found out that Jonathan Glazer became at the back of this venture and that he changed into speakme approximately the Höss own family. »

The Zone of Interest is an A24 production, the American studio behind the cream of auteur cinema ( Uncut Gems, Lady Bird of Greta Gerwig, First Cow, The Whale, Everything Everywhere All at Once). Contrary to custom, he did not display The Zone of Interest to vendors earlier than Cannes. Bac Films offered it for extra than a million euros blindly, with out reading the script or seeing the film, at the call and recognition of its author. A screening the day before Cannes allowed them to reassure themselves about the funding.

The first a part of Jonathan Glazer’s profession became spent directing advertisements (Levi’s) and tune motion pictures (Radiohead, Blur). Passed to the cinema in 2000, Jonathan Glazer by no means tells simple memories. Sexy Beastin 2000, positioned  gangsters back to back within the hectic surroundings of a villa at the Spanish coast. “I preferred his advertisements and music films for which he received many worldwide awardsexplained Ben Kinglsey, in 2001, who played one of the  characters. Jonathan has fashion, a universe of his own. »

Universe which accelerated in 2004 with Birth. A wonderful tale Rosemary’s Baby, co-scripted by way of Jean-Claude Carrière, in which Nicole Kidman crosses paths with the ghost of her overdue husband reincarnated as a 10-12 months-old boy… Psychological ambiguity combined with the supernatural. In 2013, Jonathan Glazer made an impression with Under the Skin, unveiled at the Venice Film Festival, wherein Scarlett Johansson plays a vengeful and attractive alien inside the streets of Edinburgh. Between this exceptionally stylized genre film and The Zone of Interestthe director had shot nothing, besides an installation on the Coachella festival in 2011 and a hallucinatory quick movie, in 2019, The Fall. After his Grand Prix, his subsequent film need to arouse even extra expectancies.