One Cannes Premiere Already Scored 98 on Metacritic After Director's 10-Year Hiatus
The most anticipated movie of the festival was the project of the director who has only made three feature films.
The Cannes Film Festival regularly presents a large number of worthy movies that are eagerly awaited by ordinary viewers after critical acclaim. One of this year's movies was liked by almost everyone, earning a 98% on Metacritic.
The Zone of Interest was shown in the main competition program of the Cannes Film Festival.
The movie was made by Jonathan Glazer, a British director who has not shot anything for 10 years after the movie Under The Skin with Scarlett Johansson.
The plot of the new movie revolves around the commandant of Auschwitz, a German officer in love with his wife and a Jewish prisoner. The action takes place near a concentration camp in Poland.
The Zone of Interest is perhaps the most anticipated film of the festival. The director rarely blesses the audience with full-length works, and each time they are not like the previous ones and do not leave anyone indifferent.
The Zone of Interest (a term used in the official language of the Third Reich to designate the 40-kilometer area around Auschwitz), as is already clear from the reviews, will have many fans.
The most popular of Glazer's three (now four) feature-length movies was Under The Skin. The movie was released in 2013 and was based on the book by Michel Faber.
The premiere of the movie was not a sensation, and was received coldly by the viewers. Some called it an arthouse film with a hint of great meaning, others simply could not stand the slow pace of the movie.
The movie failed at the box office and did not make back even half of its cost. The only sensation of this movie was the performance of Scarlett Johansson, already a famous actress at that time.
According to the plot of the movie, an alien disguised as an Earth girl preys on Earth men, intoxicating them and sending them to her tribesmen who cook food from Earthlings, but then she becomes more and more interested in Earth and its inhabitants and sympathizes with them.
Under the Skin is an incredibly slow, viscous and visually beautiful movie.
It was only a few years later that the movie was recognized as one of the first forerunners of new horror films that did not use typical and classic horror tropes, but rather frightened with something less obvious.
Glazer created a detached image with a minimum of dialogue. As a result, the world reflected in the movie seemed strange, unearthly, and alien.