François Margolin saw the film The Zone of Interest, Grand Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. According to him, Jonathan Glazer's attempt to create aesthetics about Auschwitz raises questions.
The problem is that we gradually get into the head of Rudolf Höss, and that we share his vision and his feelings. One wonders why. Why share with him the problems he is experiencing with his wife? Why sympathize with his problems of promotion in the Nazi hierarchy? Why suffer this discomfort for an hour and forty-five minutes?