I don’t know if I’ve ever seen such an unsettling movie and one where the sound plays such an important role. Right from the electronic scream in the opening moments, the sound track and small details (like the smudge of smoke against the sky) provide all the horror that you know exists. Not a great deal happens in the movie: it’s more like watching a painting or the stage in a play. Frightening. Surely it will win an Academy Award for sound, if not for other categories as well.
My rating: 5/5 stars
The Resident Judge of Port Phillip 
Yes, I saw this last week and it’s brilliant. We went with friends and normally of course, we debrief over coffee and a snack in one of the nearby eateries. But we came out speechless and overwhelmed.
I think one of the most devastating scenes was where those women were gossiping over tea and were talking about their acquisitions, and then we saw the woman preening in her new fur coat…
Great review. I’m definitely looking forward to watching this one next. I’m a huge fan of movies that capture the harsh realities of the Holocaust. In this regard, I really loved “Jojo Rabbit” offering a satirical take on the genocide. Here’s my review for that different film: https://huilahimovie.reviews/2020/02/03/jojo-rabbit-2019-movie-review/
Why do you think Martin Amis wrote this novel, on which the film was presumably based, back in 2014? I know him mostly for London Fields and The Information.
Why did Martin Amis choose this theme 10 years ago? It is not the type of book he was famous for.
I think from what I have read, that this wasn’t the main focus of his book. His main characters were the Commandant and his wife, but in the book, the story revolved more around a relationship between the wife and another man. It seems to me that the film concentrates more on the situation, rather than extending the plot further. I’m not that surprised that Amis wrote it- he wrote a book about Stalin (non-fiction) so it seems that he was drawn to the cruelty of power.