Son of Saul
Nemes's Holocaust film follows a Sonderkommando trying to give a boy a proper burial in Auschwitz. Shot in tight close-up, through duty, dignity, death, and moral action in hell, it explores maintaining humanity in the camps. The film is an immersive experience of moral choice under atrocity.
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