Plot: Rudolf Höss, his wife, and family live right next to the Auschwitz camp. They have a lovely house and a pleasant life, but everything gets thrown upside down when Höss is required to work at a different camp. His wife isn't willing to move with him, as she invested so much time and effort into their home.
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May 06, 2024
An interesting setup that gets stuck in its own limitations. This isn't the first film to deal with Auschwitz, but Glazer's approach is relatively novel. Not the idea itself, there have been plenty of films where "not showing" was deemed more impactful. The problem is that Glazer fails to push beyond the film's original concept.
The contrast is stark and impressive, and the sound design is efficient, but that's where it kind of ends. It's just a long repetition of the same idea, and it does get pretty repetitive later on. I wish Glazer had a few more tricks up his sleeve because somewhere there's a great film hidden in here. It just never materialized.