Cannes: Holocaust Thriller ‘Son of Saul’ Is the Competition’s First Sensation (Reviews) With his first feature, the Holocaust thriller “Son of Saul,” Hungarian director László Nemes—a protégé of acclaimed countryman Bela Tarr—has emerged as the first sensation of Cannes 2015, with Time Out’s global film editor Dave Calhoun calling it an early contender for the Palme d’Or. Set in Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the film, which premiered in competition today, has already drawn high praise for its harrowing, tightly focused portrait of Saul (Geza Rohrig), a Jewish prisoner—responsible for clearing the victims’ bodies from the gas chambers—who claims to discover...