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BRIAN VINER reveals The Zone Of Interest is the most disturbing drama he's ever seen: A portrait of Nazis playing happy families is one of two leading Oscar contenders worth watching this week


BRIAN VINER: The complaint that there's 'nothing worth going to the cinema for' is one I hear a lot, and it's often hard to argue with, but it holds no water at all this week

And while Friedel and especially Huller (another Oscar nominee) both give extraordinary performances, in a way the most unnerving character is Hedwig's matronly mother Linna (Imogen Kogge), who arrives to stay positively bursting with pride at the rich life her daughter has created for herself: the lovely home, the handsome vegetable garden. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard as none other than the aforementioned Ms Conway, a staid, homely but enormously successful writer of espionage fiction, devoted to her cat, whose life suddenly takes an unexpected turn when her suspiciously realistic plots attract the interest of real spies. Ms Dallas Howard stars as Elly Conway, a staid, homely but enormously successful writer of espionage fiction, devoted to her cat, whose life suddenly takes an unexpected turn when her suspiciously realistic plots attract the interest of real spies

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