Urs Rechn / Ουρς Ρεχν (Oberkapo Biedermann) The result is, quite simply, a great film. Nemes is tackling a subject of enormous complexity.
Is the boy Saul's own son? Or symbolic of a greater loss?Īll you need to know is in the haunted eyes of Röhrig, whose raw and riveting performance deserves superlatives. When the boy dies, Saul makes it his impossible goal to provide a Jewish burial. Tension surges when Saul finds a boy who has survived the gas. We see only what Saul sees, the more heinous acts blurred in the background, but all the more terrifying for that. Saul temporarily escapes the ovens by serving with the Sonderkommando, Jews coerced to help execute other Jews and dispose of the bodies. Nemes keeps his camera tightly focused on Saul Auslander (Géza Röhrig), a Jewish prisoner at Auschwitz. You don't merely witness horror, you feel it in your bones. But there's nothing trivial about this Hungarian masterwork from first-time director László Nemes. Πηγή: Χάρης Παπαευαγγέλου (3 Δεκεμβρίου 2015, )Īs with every Holocaust film, "Son of Saul" will stir complaints that cinema is too trivial to encompass such profound evil.