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Fresh:55
Rotten:25
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A grim and devastating tale of the Holocaust.
Theatrical Release:Oct 18, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $186,080
Synopsis: Writer-director-actor Tim Blake Nelson presents THE GREY ZONE, a relentlessly bleak drama that uses one of history's most incomprehensible calamities to address the ultimate question of human... [More]
Starring: David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, Allan Corduner
Director: Tim Blake Nelson
Unlike the nauseating fictions peddled by such 'Have-yourself-a-happy-little-Holocaust' movies as Life Is Beautiful and Jakob the Liar, The Grey Zone is honest enough to deny the possibility of hope in Auschwitz.
The lack of naturalness makes everything seem self-consciously poetic and forced...It's a pity that [Nelson's] achievement doesn't match his ambition.
Re-creating Auschwitz somehow domesticates it; the smokestacks look like pieces from an infernal Monopoly board, while the extras appear suspiciously well-fed.
You can almost hear the gears of Blake's moral mechanism churning as character's spit out their maxims.
Unlike other Holocaust films, in which good and evil are always clearly delineated, Nelson has found a grey zone of ambiguous morality.
Its impressive images of crematorium chimney fires and stacks of dead bodies are undermined by the movie's presentation, which is way too stagy.
Like Schindler's List, The Grey Zone attempts to be grandiloquent, but ends up merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way.
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Nelson strips the Holocaust film of all sentimentality evoking the daily horrors as even 'Schindler's List' did not do.
One of the finest, most humane and important Holocaust movies ever made.
The end result feels distinctly off-off-Broadway, a work of such rigid artistic principles that its theatrical life will likely be measured in days rather than weeks.
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