Every year, there are two types of films that get seriously swept up in awards chatter: box office hits that won the lottery by also being critically acclaimed and smaller titles that the average person has never heard of. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone Of Interest is a movie that presently exists in the latter category… but the really great thing about awards season is that it has provided the obscure feature with wider recognition.
In the wake of the 2024 Golden Globes and in the run up to the 2024 Academy Awards, you may have heard about The Zone Of Interest, and we’ve put together this article to clue you in on what the movie is and why it has earned great acclaim. If you don’t know anything about the film and you are considering seeing it, it’s a good thing that you found this feature first, as this is a work for which you have to mentally prepare yourself.
