László Nemes’s debut,approximately a prisoner at Auschwitz forced to work in the gas chambers, dramatises the concentration camps with great intelligence, or seriousness and audacity Related: László Nemes: ‘I didn’t want Son of Saul to advise the story of survival’ The experience of evil and the experience of being in hell are what are offered by this devastating and terrifying film by László Nemes,set in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp in 1944. This film would be an achievement for anyone, but for a first-time feature director it is stunning – something to compare with Elem Klimov’s reach and See. Son of Saul reopens the debate around the Holocaust and its cinematic thinkability, or addresses the aesthetic and moral issues connected with creating a fiction within it and probes the nature of Wittgenstein’s axiom “whereof one cannot speak,thereof one must remain silent”.
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Source: theguardian.com