![]() ![]() During the time we spend with Saul, as he works day and night, he becomes convinced that a dead child is his son and is determined to find a rabbi among the captives to help give this boy a proper burial. ![]() “Wisely suggesting that there's nothing particularly special or heroic about Saul, whose blank expression suggests his soul has long since been crushed, Nemes's camera seems accidentally to find him as the film begins. Set over 24 hours in 1944 and almost chaining itself to its lead character, the film gives us Saul, a member of the Sonderkommando – the unit of mostly Jewish prisoners forced to assist their captors with mass execution. ![]() “38-year-old Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes has made a staggering feature debut with 'Son of Saul', an Auschwitz-set drama that's numbing, provocative and impossible to unsee.
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