CRITICAL – In The Zone of interest, by Jonathan Glazer, the German actress plays the wife of Rudolf Höss, commander of Auschwitz. A role at odds with that which revealed it in the comedy Toni Erdman.
Sandra Hüller is walking the Croisette for the second time in her career. The first, no one has forgotten. The German actress was the heroine of Toni Erdmana wonderful comedy by Maren Ade and one that was forgotten on the charts in 2016. Hüller is not resentful. “Being able to show the film at Cannes was already an exceptional recognition”, explains the actress on a bench in the bar at Gray d’Albion. After this film, Sandra Hüller became a recognized name and face in European cinema. She is showing two feature films in competition this year. Anatomy of a fallby Frenchwoman Justine Triet, unveiled on Monday, and The Zone of Interestby Briton Jonathan Glazer, shown on Friday after many mysteries.
Before Cannes, we only knew that Jonathan Glazer, author of the very noticed Under the Skin (with Scarlett Johansson as an alien seducer of Earthlings), adapted the novel by Martin Amis. “I was offered to do a casting without telling me for which film, remember…
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