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Amid Backlash, Jonathan Glazer Finds Some Public Support In Hollywood & From Auschwitz Memorial Director


The 'Zone of Interest' director's Oscar speech about the Israel-Gaza conflict sees support from Zoe Kazan, the Auschwitz Memorial Director & more.

Yesterday, She Said star Zoe Kazan shared a string of tweets that read in part, “kind of shocked that anyone who saw zone of interest could be shocked by what glazer said at the oscars …a movie so rigorously intent on not allowing its audience escape into sentiment or self-congratulation, that turns a mirror instead, asking us to look at ourselves and think….. that the person who made that film might ask the same of us while accepting an award for his work…it makes me so sad that this could even be considered a political stance.” A filmmaker who researches his subject matter painstakingly, & weighs his artistic judgements with high care & deep humanity. “In his Oscar acceptance speech, Jonathan Glazer issued a universal moral warning against dehumanization,” the statement begins.

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