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Steve McQueen's new film, Occupied City, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last week.
It's an attempt to find a new way of keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive, as the people who remember it firsthand disappear.
The movie is largely, monumentally, a work of oral history, but its history is physical as well.
The Zone of Interest is about the life of Rudolf Höss and his wife, Hedwig, who live just feet from the death camp.
The film's digital cinematography is harsh and glaring, so sharp that it rakes at your eyes.
Director says he wanted to portray not just the banality of the Nazis’ evil but their “thoughtlessness”.
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