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. As with every Holocaust film, Son of Saul will stir complaints that cinema is too trivial to encompass such profound evil.
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