Director Jonathan Glazer says he borrowed techniques from reality TV, with a hidden crew and fixed cameras, for his film about Auschwitz concentration camp.
Meanwhile, just metres away, his family enjoyed their spacious house, plentiful food and manicured garden - separated from the camp by a concrete wall.
Glazer, who made the film near the site in Auschwitz, chose to hint at the terrible events inside the camp.
Reality TV shows like Big Brother filmed people without visible camera crews, but with participants being watched at all times.
"The idea of eavesdropping felt like the way to show the drama - although there is no drama," Glazer tells the BBC. "It was a way of being in the house with them."
He rejected conventional filming methods, "where you get caught up in the actor and close-ups... they were the wrong thing for this".
He's correct in saying there is "no drama". The humdrum life of the family is not gripping in a conventional sense.
"There was no cosiness with the characters in the film-making," Glazer adds. "No funny, warm moments."
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