Hell Is a Place on Earth: Son of Saul

Son of Saul
Directed by László Nemes
Opens December 18
“If you’re going to make a film about genocide, it had better be really disturbing.”
—Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
Oppenheimer’s words came to mind the first time I saw László Nemes’s debut feature, which attempts to find a new and meaningful way of representing some part of the Holocaust. Set almost entirely in Auschwitz, Son of Sa