Son of Saul, the best film I saw at Cannes 2015, is out in UK cinemas today. It's relentlessly grim, but an unforgettable watch. If you can find a cinema near you playing it over the next few months, I highly recommend it. It's not going to be as big as Captain America: Civil War, but it deserves your attention!
Here's a snippet from my review:
The gas chambers, the incinerators and the sickening machinery of
genocide are all vividly dissected in Son of Saul as viewers are plunged
into the midst of Hitler’s Final Solution at work. Audiences are
dragged along on the gut wrenching journey of one man, a tiny cog in
this machine of mass slaughter. For those who think they’ve seen all the
horror that holocaust films can muster, Son of Saul scrapes new depths
of despair in its harrowing depiction of the inner workings of Auschwitz
in 1944.
We follow title character Saul, a Hungarian prisoner
working as a member of the Sonderkommando at an Auschwitz crematorium.
His job is to herd his fellow Jews to the gas chambers, where he then
scrubs away the evidence of their deaths, before removing the bodies and
plundering their belongings for the Nazis. But when the seemingly
desensitised Saul finds the body of a boy he takes to be his son, he
suddenly finds a way to grasp at some small sense of redemption in
amongst all the senseless killing. He makes it his mission to save the
boy’s corpse from cremation, and to find a rabbi who can recite the
Kaddish prayer as he buries his child. Even as those around him plan
rebellion in order to stand a chance at survival, Saul sticks rigidly to
his plan to find a way to give the boy a proper burial.
You can check out the rest of my review at Tastic Film here.
Here's the trailer:
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