The Zone of Interest achieves something previously impossible to convey except in books: the banality of Nazi evil. This is Eichmann in Suburbia.

The standard Holocaust film strategy has been to bombard viewers with the monstrosity of Hitler’s evil. In The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer takes a controversial new approach: less is more.

To the long list of signature Holocaust films––Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, Schindler’s List––add The Zone of Interest, which I just experienced at the extraordinary Palm Springs International Film Festival. This tight, understated, Arbus-like art film––directed with remarkable precision by Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast)––shows the twisted lengths tha…