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Capital

R

Released Oct 25, 2013

1 hr. 54 min.

Drama

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58%

33 Reviews

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47%

500+ Ratings

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The CEO of a giant investment bank in Europe tries to cling to power when an American hedge fund tries to buy the company.

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Starts off good but then goes like "ohhh look at me I'm a smart business person!" Then I stopped watching it...

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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"Now that you're no longer CEO, who's in charge?" "The economic situation." "Who is 'the economic situation'?" "A fat whore...who runs everything, everywhere." Marx: "The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its pleasures, is nothing but the resurrection of the lumpenproletariat at the top of bourgeois society."

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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It's not great. It's much better than anything Hollywood could make.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Eficiente como retrato de um universo corrupto, ávido e implacável, que não hesita em condenar milhares de pessoas à miséria em prol do lucro de algumas centenas de acionistas e investidores. Entretanto, falha ao apresentar um protagonista mal-explorado, que oscila inesperadamente entre um homem pragmático e ambicioso e um homem ciente do absurdo que o cerca, bem como dos prejuízos que causa a vários cidadãos - e a fraca atuação de Gad Elmaleh só salienta esse mal desenvolvimento (o que não deixa de ser uma pena, já que se trata de uma personagem potencialmente complexa). Soma-se a isso certas subtramas que soam bastante deslocadas e desnecessárias. Em termos narrativos, o único elemento que se sobressai é o conjunto de digressões e fantasias sarcásticas e/ou surreais, que funcionam mesmo com o tom artificial e inorgânico. Por fim, um longa bem-sucedido em sua denúncia, mas insosso em sua narrativa.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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The story is about the greed of the banks and that's about it - Sadly the "Le Capital" is slow and monotonous from beginning till end. Pass

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

01/12/23

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The financial industry gets a taste of their own medicine - as Costa-Gavras employs cynicism to rebut cynicism.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Marc Tourneuil

Gabriel Byrne

Dittmar Rigule

Natacha Régnier

Diane Tourneuil

Céline Sallette

Maud Baron

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John Anderson

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Director Costa-Gavras takes a vaguely facetious tone toward the evils of global finance, which he concludes is a game for gluttonous boys.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 1, 2013

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Michael Sragow

Orange County Register

It's a bit like what The Godfather would have been if it had been set in "The Bank of Evil" from Despicable Me -- and if its antihero were a cipher instead of Michael Corleone.

Rated: C+

Nov 1, 2013

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

What's lacking is most surprising from this dissident filmmaker: the emotional outrage.

Nov 1, 2013

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David Walsh

World Socialist Web Site

The most recent film from Greek-born director Costa-Gavras, best known for Z (1969), State of Siege (1972) and Missing (1982), is Capital, a scathing assault on the world of financial speculation.

Feb 12, 2021

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Dan Mecca

The Film Stage

A fast-paced, cynical piece of entertainment that serves as a surprisingly simple criticism of our uneven system of dollars and cents.

Rated: B

Jun 22, 2016

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Craig D. Lindsey

Philadelphia Weekly

Costa-Gavras certainly found an intriguing leading man in Elmaleh, with his ice-cold stare that may remind audiences of Steve McQueen at his most penetrating.

Dec 14, 2015

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Synopsis

The CEO of a giant investment bank in Europe tries to cling to power when an American hedge fund tries to buy the company.

Director: Costa-Gavras
Executive Producer: Gaetan Rousseau
Screenwriter: Karim Boukercha, Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg
Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Rating: R (Drug Use|Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (Canada)
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 25, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 10, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $95.3K

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