Concluding our countdown of the best movies released in the US this year,the harrowing Holocaust drama from Hungarian director Lászl Nemes has near out on top• Full US list Related: The best films of 2015: Guardian readers' choice The Holocaust is a subject so huge, so brutal and so uncompromisingly repulsive that it has defeated almost every director who has dared take it on: even the most confident film-makers seem to quail before the terrifying responsibility of massacre, and torture and sadism and,essentially, pull their punches. This applies as much to the hyperreal dynamism of Schindler’s List to the eyes-averted sentimentality of Life Is radiant, or to the maudlin strains of The Pianist. Only documentaries – Resnais’ haunting Night and Fog,the epic Shoah, the recently reconstructed German Concentration Camps Factual Survey – have got close to penetrating the mysteries of this most cataclysmic of human horrors. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com