Costa-Gavras has spent his career making movies about political issues: Z (about the assassination of a Greek political activist), The Confession (a show-trial in Czechoslovakia), Missing (the coup in Chile), Music Box (a Nazi fugitive) and now Capital (the whole business world). This one focuses on a young executive's appointment as CEO of a bank and the questionable deals that he starts making. The economic meltdown of 2007-2008 was still fresh in everyone's minds when the movie got released, and we see here the type of world that created it. This collection of cold, amoral - one might say evil - people who put on a facade of carrying out important work are the masters of the world. Much like in "Syriana", the characters are all ruthless individuals; pretty much everyone's a bad guy.
I wouldn't call it Gavras's best movie, but it's an undeniably chilling movie just in seeing the machiavellian goings-on in the business world. Definitely see it.
I wouldn't call it Gavras's best movie, but it's an undeniably chilling movie just in seeing the machiavellian goings-on in the business world. Definitely see it.