![]() Consider, for example, its focus on one man. The film is simultaneously an immersive, physically taxing experience of life in a camp and a self-conscious reflection on the conditions of, and motives for, Holocaust movies. However, both in its peculiar plot - which focuses exclusively on the story of one man, Saul, brilliantly performed by Géza Röhrig - and in its cinematography - a hand-held, mobile camera that remains persistently and tightly focused on Saul - it marks out its own territory. Son of Saul, the first film (to be released next week on DVD) of László Nemes - he both directed and co-wrote it, and it won both the grand prize at Cannes and the Oscar for Best Foreign Film - is the latest in a seemingly endless string of Holocaust films.
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