10 Awesome Recent Movies You'll Never Watch Again
5. The Zone Of Interest
Jonathan Glazer's stunning Best Picture nominee The Zone of Interest is a gruelling, exhausting film which unfolds in the shadow of the Auschwitz concentration camp, as a Nazi commandant (Christian Friedel) and his family live in their "dream home" mere feet away.
Despite featuring not a single on-screen death, Glazer's film ingeniously uses both pin-sharp sound design and precise visual framing to imply the horrific events taking place just out of view, ensuring it's no less traumatic a sit than a more outwardly explicit dramatisation of the Holocaust.
It's a film that leaves a nauseated, horrified feeling when it's over, and even though it's a relatively svelte 105 minutes in length, the audience is locked in Glazer's vice grip for the entirety.
The Zone of Interest leaves a bruising impact on even the most hardened of viewers, and so few will ever decide to go back to it - no matter how expertly assembled it undeniably is.