DORR Political Film Club – Zone of Interest

Greeting film aficionados, Join us for our next political film club conversation.  Let’s meet in person, yes, in person, at Vino di Sedona to talk Zone of Interest on Friday, April 26, 4:30-5:30.  The Academy Award winner for Best International Feature Film, Zone of Interest has been called a “brutal masterpiece.”  Based loosely on a book by British writer Martin Amis, Zone of Interest shows the daily details of the life of a Nazi family–Rudolf Höss (played by Christian Friedel), the fictionalized S.S. commandant who for several years ran Auschwitz., his wife, Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), and their five children.  In a NYTimes review, Manohla Dargis asserts, “In stressing the quotidian aspect and placid texture of the family’s life, [director Brian] Glazer emphasizes just how commonplace this world is, a mundanity that evokes what Hannah Arendt, in writing about the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the organizers of the Holocaust, famously called the “banality of evil.”

Watch the film ahead of time on Amazon and join us for a lively discussion.

We’re both in town and hope you can join us at Vino di Sedona on April 26.  We’ll also have a guest, Bjorn Krondorfer, Director of NAU’s Martin Springer Institute, join us. DORR’s political film club is hosted by DORR member Mik Jordahl (Attorney) and Board member Frankie Riemer (Professor).