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Jonathan Glazer’s César Acceptance Message Echoed His Much-Discussed Oscar Speech From One Year Ago
The Zone Of Interest filmmaker echoed his controversial speech from one year ago.
Under The Skin and Sexy Beast director Glazer, who is himself Jewish, has always kept a relatively low profile and has rarely been seen at film events since winning the Oscar last year. The filmmaker rarely does press but his speech on Oscar night garnered plenty of column inches and drew opprobrium from more than 1,000 Jewish show business professionals who signed a letter denouncing it. Inspired loosely by Martin Amis’ 2014 novel of the same name and set outside the walls of Auschwitz during the Holocaust, the German-language Zone of Interest stars Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller as Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden separated from the Nazi concentration and extermination camp by a only a short wall.
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