Review of Son of Saul (2015) by Kevin D — 22 Apr 2016

László Nemes extraordinary debut feature film shot in 35mm film and prime lenses (bokeh effects) is a work of remarkable power, a chilling investigation into the intimate mechanics of mass murder numb by the visual, only susceptible to the surrounding sound.

Son of Saul (Saul fia) is a Hungarian film personally follows Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, works as a Sonderkommando member to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during the Holocaust eventually they will become the victim of themselves.

One day, he finds the body of a boy he takes for his "son" and starts his selfish journey to find a rabbi to give a proper jewish burial to his ambiguous son while in the midst of a camp rebellion.