“We had a set of principles, and one of them was not to make a beautiful film,” says director László Nemes, 38, whose staggering first feature, Son of Saul, plunges the viewer into a plank-for-plank reconstruction of the Nazi death camp during one day’s activity. Even as cinema’s most inspired filmmakers- Steven Spielberg, Roman Polanski, Claude Lanzmann (director of the mighty 10-hour 1985 documentary Shoah)-take on the subject of the Holocaust, there’s a fear that with every movie, no matter how sentimental, we get further away from the truth. Auschwitz will always loom over the collective memory of the 20th century and, if we’re smart, beyond it.
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