complicity

There's simply no other film in recent memory quite like Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest. Seldom does one come across a film as bone-chillingly immediate as this one; it refuses to leave the mind and spirit. This is a film about the Holocaust, but one that stays away from depicting the genocidal regime in all its brutality. But this is also a film that is very much about human complicity, about affinity for survival in a deeply unfair and brutal world. It is a film that refuses to be slotted within the paradigm…

A French appeals court confirms a charge of complicity in crimes against humanity against the cement group Lafarge over alleged payoffs to the Daesh terror group during Syria's civil war. The court also upheld charges of endangering the lives of others for putting its Syrian employees at risk as Daesh terrorists…