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Updated Sunday, February 18, 2024-7:14 p.m.

  • Cinema The Snow Society, an avalanche of excessive cinema, wins 12 Goya awards

  • Criticism The Snow Society: Bayona against the impunity of cynicism (****)

The film The Zone of Interest, by British director Jonathan Glazer, won this Sunday in London the

Bafta for best non-English language film,

a category in which it competed with The Snow Society by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona.

With the award-winning film, Glazer immerses the viewer in the family life of a commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Rudolf Höss, head of the SS camp in Auschwitz in 1944, to narrate the horror with a shocking work, composed entirely of shots fixed.

The film features

the outstanding performance of the German Sandra Hüller

and, according to critics, will be remembered as one of the great stories about the Holocaust.

The winning film already won the Grand Jury Prize (the Silver Palm) at the Cannes Festival (France), as well as the FIPRESCI Press Prize.

Its director, Jonathan Glazer, is best known for his previous work, his fourth feature film, 'Under the Skin', with Scarlett Johansson.

When collecting the award today, Glazer, visibly moved and surprised, said that receiving the Bafta was "an out-of-body experience" for him, while the producer, James Wilson, thanked the director for "his virtuosity and his friendship."

"Walls

are not new before or after the Holocaust

and it seems clear now that we should be concerned about the innocents who are being murdered in Gaza or Yemen or Mariupol or Israel," Wilson said.

The film beat Anatomy of a Fall, the American film Lives Past in Korean, the Ukrainian documentary 20 Days in Mariupol and

The Snow Society by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona.

The Spanish director, who had just won the Goya for best direction for this film, his fourth Goya as a director in his artistic career, was thus left on the verge of winning the Bafta, just as he did at the last Golden Globes, where that film also started as one of the candidates in non-English speaking.

Based on the book of the same name by Pablo Vierci, The Snow Society narrates the testimonies of the 16 survivors of the plane crash that crashed on October 13, 1972 in the Andes mountain range and that was transporting a rugby team from Montevideo to Chile. .

Of its 45 occupants, 12 died on impact and another 17 did not survive the harsh weather conditions, lack of food and injuries throughout the 72 days it took to be rescued.