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Son of Saul (2015)
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The camera stays close to a Jewish prisoner forced to work in Auschwitz, leaving much of the surrounding extermination machinery blurred or beyond the frame. Tamás Zányi layers orders, languages, movement and cries into a space wider than the image permits. The result is deliberately disorienting and intensely distressing, rather than an exercise in identifying clever effects. Listening reveals the scale and simultaneity of events that the narrow visual perspective cannot encompass.
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About Son of Saul
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.