Lazy Sundays At Auschwitz
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Douglas Mercer
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Re: Lazy Sundays At Auschwitz
Jonathan Glazer was born into a Jewish family in London.
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Douglas Mercer
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Re: Lazy Sundays At Auschwitz
"Glazer centers it on the real-life Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), the commandant of the camp and a rising star in the Nazi party. A powerful and frightening early scene finds him discussing the specifics of an incinerator and how its chambers can be organized. Mass extermination, project managed. Burn, cool, unload, reload, someone explains so casually that they could be talking about buying a refrigerator. Auschwitz is a pastoral beauty. Mass murder is happening just out of frame. The evidence of it — the occasional crackle of gunfire, the rising plumes of smoke, the screams — are easily ignored by the Höss family. It’s just ambient detritus, a minor blemish on an idyllic landscape."
