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Nemes 'Son Of Saul': Film Analysis

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Imagine Claude Lanzmann’s pathbreaking “Shoah” shot in a hand-held, intimate, in-the-moment shooting style, all squeezed into 107 minutes of abject terror. Well, that’s exactly what László Nemes’s first feature, “Son of Saul” is, or at least, the filmmaker intended it to be. For readers unacquainted with world cinema, think of “Schindler’s List”, expunge the gloss of Spielberg-esque sentimentality, put in a substantial dose of mind-numbing macabre, and voila, you get an unfailing recipe for an Academy Award.
Nemes has built his film entirely in Auschwitz-Birkenau, deep into the Second World War. The time is crucial as a lot of events in the film can only be made sense of, taking into account the growing impetuosity of the Nazi regime with
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