We've been there so often in recent years that it's difficult to avoid the odd feeling of familiarity with concentration camp horrors. But not for long - this adaptation of Imre Kertesz's Nobel prize-winning book about his experiences as a 14-year-old sent from Budapest to experience life in the camps provides a boldly different perspective, as surprising in many ways as John Boorman's child's-eye view of the blitz in Hope and Glory.

It also combines the full amount of dread and horror with a strange beauty in its style, using colour and black and white often in short scenes fading to black like an old memory. The film's lengthy shooting time enabled the lead actor, Marcell Nagy, to age convincingly in a haunting lead performance and there's a memorable cameo by Daniel Craig as a US soldier. The cinematography won two awards - oddly the Golden Frog and the Golden Swan - but Ennio Morricone's score is, for once, a bit obtrusive.