Crooks Conspire in “Capital”
Hate banks and the white-collar crooks who run them?
“Capital” is a French film by legendary Greek-born director
Costa-Gavras (“Missing,” “Z”) that will confirm your worst suspicions.
When the CEO of the French bank Phenix collapses and dies on
a golf course, an ambitious underling named Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh) is
tapped as his successor.
Tourneuil thinks he is in charge, but he is just a pawn in
the treacherous power games that ensue with the hostile takeover attempt from
an American hedge fund led by ruthless, pitiless Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel
Byrne). It doesn’t help that Tourneuil can’t help falling for exotic supermodel
Nassim Liya Kebede.
“Capital” is Robin Hood in reverse. Bankers “rob from the
poor to give to the rich.” As one of the characters notes, “They’re grown-up
children.” This is fiction that is all too close to the truth.
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