Last Updated on March 6, 2024, 9:04 AM | Published: March 6, 2024
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art (OKCMOA) sends this information as posted below:
Opening this Friday, March 8th at OKCMOA Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is a chilling and meticulously crafted treatise on the banality of evil that earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. This weekend also offers one final chance to see all three categories of Oscar nominated short films before the awards ceremony on Sunday, March 10.
Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and winner of the Cannes Grand Prix, Jonathan Glazer’s haunting, formally rigorous adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel observes the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and his wife Hedwig (Anatomy of a Fall’s Sandra Hüller), as they strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.
“In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality. It’s summer in the mid-1940s, and a German family merrily idles by a river. Father Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and mother Hedwig (Sandra Hüller, a Best Actress nominee for Anatomy of a Fall) tuck their kids in bed at night. They entertain family and guests in their vast backyard garden on the weekends. In the mornings, she oversees chores with a cadre of housekeepers and cooks; he goes to work as head Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Their domestic life is paradisiacal. Yet over the wall abutting their home, we can see smokestacks, and at night we hear screams and occasional gunshots. Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity, filmed and edited with aptly cold precision and punctuated with an ominous score by Mica Levi. Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. An A24 release.” -New York Film Festival
Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Sound and International Feature.
Jonathan Glazer | 1931 | In German, Polish & Yiddish with English subtitles | 105 minutes | PG-13 (for thematic material, some suggestive material and smoking) | DCP
About the Sam Noble Theater
Incorporating the original 1947 Centre Theater as an adaptive reuse project, the 250-seat Samuel Roberts Noble Theater features a state-of-the-art projection system and is home to the Museum’s film program, which presents screenings every Thursday through Sunday.
About OKCMOA
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is one of the leading arts institutions in the region. The Museum presents a dynamic range of exhibitions organized from prestigious museums and collections throughout the world. The Museum’s own diverse collection features highlights from North America, Europe, and Asia, with particular strengths in American art and postwar abstraction. The permanent collection also boasts one of the world’s largest public collections of Dale Chihuly glass, a major collection of photography by Brett Weston, and the definitive museum collection of works by the Washington Color painter Paul Reed. The Museum’s renowned Samuel Roberts Noble Theater screens the finest international, independent, documentary, and classic films. Museum amenities include the Museum Store and the Roof Terrace. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors. The Museum serves over 125,000 visitors annually from all fifty states and thirty foreign countries.
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