Review: Gary Hustwit’s Dieter Rams Documentary Criticizes Consumerism

Review: Gary Hustwit’s Dieter Rams Documentary Criticizes Consumerism

On a recent weeknight at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, the celebrated German designer Dieter Rams ambled up to a podium in his uniform of a black shirt, thinning silver bowl cut, and cane. He was there to introduce a movie, of which he is begrudgingly but indisputably the star. “The film has …