DesertTalkies Film Reviews!

  The Zone Of Interest [2023] Starring: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel Direction by Jonathan Glazer Language: German At first glance, I thought this movie would be absolutely brilliant. Movies about Nazi Germany and the Holocaust have often been some of my favourites, as they were tragedies so large and pronounced, with impacts that continue to reverberate into contemporary society. I don’t know what I was expecting from this, to be honest. I usually think that every movie will have a main character who serves as a focal point, but I soon found out that in this movie, that wasn’t the case. It was almost as if the audience is god-like, peering into the lives of what seems like an ordinary European family, expect for that fact that the patriarch is one of the bigwigs at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which is directly adjacent to the family home.  My first instinct when it came to watching this movie was this: it was chilling, and really highlights the qui...

  All Quiet on the Western Front [2022]  Starring: Felix Kammerer, Daniel Bruhl, Albrecht Schuch Direction by Edward Berger, Original story by Erich Maria Remarque Language: German Well, I guess I'm just a snob. I normally do not like action movies, especially war movies because they are so incredibly cookie cutter. For weeks, I have been debating actually putting myself through the experience of watching this, but at the end I'm so incredibly glad that I did. I can definitely say that this is my top choice for Best Picture at the Oscars. This may have been the single most harrowing, poignant, heart-wrenching, brilliant film that I have ever seen. Firstly, let's talk about the movie as a whole. In my experience, we learn about World War One from an American/British point of view, and so seeing the flip side of the conflict was incredibly eye-opening. Seeing the experiences of German troops, in a way, really humanised them. At the end of the day, soldiers were just pawns in ...