There’s no end to gruelling films about the Holocaust, but there may be limits to how many we can endure. One could argue that in a world in which so many idiots think it’s sexy to be a Nazi, there can’t be enough reminders of the horrors of the Third Reich, but those who need to pay attention are unlikely to be in the audience.

To get around the sense of emotional exhaustion induced by Nazi atrocities, a director has to find a compelling new angle – which is precisely what Jonathan Glazer has done with The Zone of Interest, a film that feels like an extended gloss on Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase “the banality of evil”. Arendt’s reference was to Adolf Eichmann, the senior bureaucrat responsible for the transport of victims to the death camps, whose defence against war crimes was that he was merely doing his job.