When the ceo of frances phenix bank collapses on the golf course, machiavellian young executive marc tourneuil gad elmaleh. Oct 04, 20 tribute to costagavras join us for a tribute program featuring a conversation with costagavras, moderated by beloved mill valley actoractivist peter coyote, and a screening of capital. Jan 29, 20 costa premiered le capital at the 2012 toronto international film festival. Bernard le coq, daniel mesguich, hippolyte girardot, liya kebede, celine sallette, natacha regnier, gabriel byrne. Surprisingly, the director would seldom venture into comedic territory again, doing so successfully only late in his career with his timely satires le couperet 2005 and le capital. But it is also a wickedly clever character analysis of. Costa gavras, greekborn naturalized french motionpicture director noted for films that have been both political arguments and entertainments usually as mysteries or thrillers. Costa gavras shifts his attention from the governance done by politicians to the governance done by financiers.
A serious european financial thriller is something of a novelty, and costagavras, the militant film master par excellence, shows perfect timing. The adventures of tintin is the latest actor to take on the lead role for the upcoming costagavras film. From legendary academy award rwinning writerdirector costagavras missing, z comes capital, a fastpaced, darkly comic, suspenseful drama set in the high stakes world of global finance. Even the high life portrayed in the film seems pallid, as if the director. Based on the book le capital by stephane osmont, the film is directed by costagavras and written by costagavras, jeanclaude grumberg and karim boukercha. His bestknown movies included z, state of siege, missing, and betrayed, all of which focused on contemporary political situations. The newly appointed ceo of a giant european investment bank works to hold on to his power when an american hedge fund company tries to buy out his company. Costa gavras latest film, capital, opens with a benign scene of men playing golf, interrupted first by the collapse of one of the players, and then quickly thereafter by a fourthwallbreaking. Greed is not good in costagavras le capital indiewire. Even the high life portrayed in the film seems pallid. He is known for films with overt political themes, such as the political thrillers z 1969, academy award for best foreign language film and missing 1982. With yves montand, irene papas, jeanlouis trintignant, francois perier. With gad elmaleh, gabriel byrne, liya kebede, natacha regnier.
Costagavras gleaned his political activism literally from his fathers knee. We were thrilled to host costa at our tiff studio space, onsite at ocad u, where we talked indepth about his latest film, its relationship to his body of work as a whole, working with gad elmaleh, and even touched on some of his less commented upon films. Unfortunately costa gavras le capital doesnt remedy that situation. This behindthescenes expose of the banksters and their machinations is a fictional, highly entertaining film about wall. Le capital is a 2012 french drama film directed by costagavras, about ruthless ambition, power struggle, greed and deception in the. This behindthescenes expose of the banksters and their machinations is a fictional, highly entertaining film about wall street. From legendary academy award rwinning writerdirector costa gavras missing, z comes capital, a fastpaced, darkly comic, suspenseful drama set in the high stakes world of global finance. This is the story of the unstoppable ascent of marc tourneuil, an expendable servant of the capital who became its undisputed master. Costagavras film excels as a meticulously researched procedural that goes deep into the grime of greed, deception and cynical exploitation. He is known for films with overt political themes, such as the political thrillers z 1969, academy award for best foreign language film and missing 1982, for which he won an academy award for best adapted screenplay. Capital a cracking good melodrama set in a contemporary world of high finance and low cunning, costa gavras capital nimbly plays on our worst memories of the 2008 economic meltdown.
Costagavras clearly had as much fun sending up the policier genre as had paying homage to it, and the result is arguably his most accessible and entertaining film. Costagavras cohen media group subscribe now to get the best movie trailers, clips and videos. Capital, a financial thriller directed by costagavras. A serious european financial thriller is something of a novelty, and costagavras, the militant film master par excellence, shows perfect timing in his ambitious capital, a film that lingers in the. Le capital, french director costagavras, starring gad elmaleh, with gabriel byrne. Le capital is a 2012 french drama film directed by costa gavras, about ruthless ambition, power struggle, greed and deception in the. Capital, which explores corporate corruption and greed, and adults in the room 2019, which examines greeces debt crisis of 2015. Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles. According to variety, gad elmaleh last seen, kind of, as ben salaad in. Oct 03, 20 capital is a pointed commentary on how the darwinian world of contemporary capitalism plays itself out across the global financial stage. Capital, a financial thriller directed by costagavras the new.
Le capital, realise par costagavras avec gad elmaleh, gabriel byrne, natacha regnier. Costagavras, the leftleaning greekfrench director of z and missing, would seem to be the ideal filmmaker for an anticapitalist screed. Costagavras will be presented with the mvff award, designed by acclaimed mill valley artist alice corning. The film remains suspenseful and the heroor rather, the antiheroremains remorseless. Le capital is a 2012 french drama film directed by costagavras, about ruthless ambition, power struggle, greed and deception in the international world of finance. Directed by costa gavras, starring gad elmaleh, gabriel byrne and natacha regnier, le capital french trailer. Capital is a film directed by costagavras with gad elmaleh, gabriel byrne, liya kebede, jordana depaula, year. Mathieu kassovitz out, gad elmaleh in for costagavras le capital. The globetrotting film which will span paris, london, new york, davos and tokyo was written by the directors son and filmmaker romain gavras our day.
But it is also a wickedly clever character analysis of a man more divided against himself than his preternatural calm suggests. Avec gad elmaleh, gabriel byrne, natacha regnier, hippolyte girardot, bernard le coq. Oct 25, 20 capital, directed by costagavras, centers on the machinations of ruthless financiers during a takeover attempt. Veteran director costagavras, who made his name decades ago with films that sharply.
In costagavras illegal immigrants, le capital 2012. Greed is not good in costagavras le capital picking one sustained tone and then putting it on a loop, for costagavras fans expecting the next z or missing, this isnt it. Trailer for costagavras capital, starring gad elmaleh and. Jan 17, 2012 even the best filmmakers sometimes have trouble finding casts for their films. The senior gavras was a greek government functionary who performed heroically in the resistance movement against the. After the screening, join us at odalisque cafe 35 fourth st.