The Grey Zone [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Nothing to write home about?.......2008-01-10

Some parts of this film were really excellent and other parts were so bad, so amateurish that it really was difficult to believe that they were one and the same DVD.The bunks in the blocks were so pristine clean and the prisoners were so clean themselves they looked as if they could appear in a washing powder or soap advert on TV. The fact that in reality EVERYONE had lice,bedbugs,and all manner of infestations in the actual living quarters as well as themselves and were ALL suffering from SEVERE MALNUTRTION,dysentry,typhoid etc was in no way evident in any of the scenes in this film, in fact the inhabitants of THIS Auschwitz looked more like they were AT Butlins?
There was good acting I thought from Mira Sorvino and her compatriot especially when the remainder of the internees were being shot as they were being questioned re the whereabouts of the gunpowder and their final sacrifice was very moving.David Arquette was value for money but I think Harvey Keitel should call it a day on this performance and my acting honours would go to young Kamelia Grigorova, the girl found to have survived the gas chamber.Too much was left to imagination for the viewer, it would have been better to have seen the panic of the people in the showers along with their screams,to have seen how or with what implement Sorvino was being tortured when being interrogated. These things let the film down.

A worthy failure, but a failure nonetheless.......2007-11-09

The Grey Zone is another well-intentioned failure to add to the canon of Holocaust cinema. On one level you feel bad for criticizing a sincere effort, but on the other when a film with this subject matter (the revolt of the Jewish and Polish Sonderkomandos who ran the crematoriums in Auschwitz in return for a few more months of life) doesn't actually make you FEEL, there's definitely something wrong with it. A few of the performances (Steve Buscemi, Daniel Benzali, David Arquette) are excellent, but far too many are inadequate (especially Alan Corduner in a key role) or just plain bad (Harvey Keitel and Bryan O'Byrne's unfortunately comic book Nazis). The dialogue in director Tim Blake Nelson's script, based on his play, is extremely problematic, to put it mildly. Aiming for evasiveness, it often just sounds like bad Beckett or Pinter ("But -", "Of course." "Although - " "I know" "Then..."), with one line often seemingly unrelated to another and badly staged inadvertent momentary pauses where it should have overlapped. But the biggest problem is it's failure to offer much substance or, until the last half hour, much drama. The last 20 minutes do become involving and the ending is genuinely haunting, but the film seems seriously under-developed. The camerawork and editing are superb, however, never overdoing the hand-held camera but conveying a sense of place and atmosphere: without going out of its way to over-explain anything, you get a feeling that these people are in this place trying to survive another day rather than in a movie.

Hard hitting.......2007-03-30

I have a keen interest in the Jewish Holocaust and was fascinated by films like Schindler's List,The Pianist,Holocaust and Fateless amonst others but in The Grey Zone we probably have the most hard hitting of them all.
Auschwitz Birkenau is the concentration camp in question and many aspects of life in the camp is covered in great detail from the gas chambers,the ovens,Dr.Mengele's experiments,the living conditions of the prisoners and much more that i have not seen covered in such detail in any other film.
Certainly not for the faint hearted and filmed with so much realism that it is hard to know whether you should be 'enjoying' it or not.

Very well made film.......2004-08-07

To say the least, this film shows you what really happened. At times you think to yourself How? Why? If you like this kind of story in a film, it is the best ever made.

Disturbing.......2004-03-11

This is a gruesome film and I mean this positively. It covers the reality of concentration camps that are rarely touched upon in other Holocaust films - that of the gas chambers.

There is torture, gas chamber scenes, burning in the oven scenes and shootings but running through the film is the frustration the prisoners feel at the lack of activity by the camp's Resistance leaders.

At one point someone is found alive at the end of a gasssing and things ae brought to a head here on. I won't say more so as not to spoil the storyline but it is well worth watching just to see another side to the death camps that is rarely shown on screen.

To compliment this film I would suggest reading Filip Muller's 'Three Years in the Gas Chamber' which has many similar themes running through it.

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