10 Decades, 10 Movies of 2015

[tps_header]1940s: Son of Saul[/tps_header]

Films set in the nineteen-forties are almost always synonymously placed with the Second World War. Son of Saul specifically centres on the notorious Auschwitz, only one of multiple stages of the decade’s — and perhaps the century’s — most massively scaled, institutionalized tragedy. Son of Saul recounts this as a mere backdrop — literal background noise — but its context remains a gaping reminder of one of humanity’s great failures.