Glazer's Zone of Interest Exposes a Heart of Darkness

Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry we look at:

Jonathan Glazer's zones of darkness, Alison Brie the action hero, Gal Gadot's heart of stone, and a dancing gorilla mask.

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JONATHAN GLAZER'S ZONES OF DARKNESS

There’s something revelatory about each piece of cinema Jonathan Glazer directs.

For example, the anti-Gandhi performance of Ben Kingsley as a high-octane gangster in Sexy Beast, the ultra-realistic presentation of reincarnation in Birth, and the poetic emptiness of Scarlett Johansson's alien in Under the Skin.

In his latest masterwork, The Zone of Interest **NO SPOILERS, I promise** Glazer depicts the Holocaust.

​The trailer is stark and scant, but one image shook us to our core. A little boy, presumably the son of a Nazi officer, playing with gold teeth.

Glazer's uncanny ability to make the pedestrian extraordinary, even surreal, seems well suited to expose the banality of evil.

Variety's chief film critic, Owen Gleiberman, lauded Glazer's film as:

"chilling and profo…