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Movie Recommendation  - Le Capital 

2/3/2017

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Le Capital is a very interesting French movie, directed by renowned filmmaker Konstantinos Gavras, starring Gabriel Byrne and Gad Elmaleh. Elmaleh plays Marc Tourneuil, a highly intelligent individual of the financial market, that is promoted to head of Phenix, an increasingly valuable high risk bank of Europe, that rises to be a giant of the financial system. 

Marc Tourneuil, married to Diane (Natacha Régnier) is a very skilled and intuitive pawn of the financial market, that is promoted to president of the Phenix Bank as soon as the current president becomes sick. He is chosen in a hurry by a select group of the board committee, that constitute the elite of the European financial system, which already elaborate plans to substitute him as soon as the former president – a sort of mentor for Tourneuil – dies. Acknowledgeable, determined, lucid, very wise, and assuming that he will become a sort of puppet at the hands of the shareholders, who detain the real power behind the bank, Tourneuil immediately employs a private detective to work for him, with the intention to discover who his real enemies really are, who are the ones he can really trust, and the ones he can’t. 
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As soon as he assumes the presidency of the bank, he gets close to Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne), a very unscrupulous individual, that knows how to present himself as lovable, trustful and friendly. Likewise, Tourneuil, on dealing with extremely dubious persons, learns how to perfectly play the game in the financial market, never satisfying the demands of the real detainees of the power, but never disappointing them either. When he gets involved with a very beautiful and exotic, but promiscuous international top model, he immediately suspects that this could be an arrangement made by the bank elite, to blackmail him in a future occasion, in order have him fully controlled, to act as the head for their illicit ordeals, under the threat of ruining his personal life and marriage. Nonetheless, always one step ahead of his enemies, Tourneuil knows that, one way or another, he will be used as a puppet for all kinds of fusions and financial transactions. Having no alternative, besides being astute and intelligent, he becomes a master at the corporative cat and mouse game, with the fraudulent acquisition of a Japanese bank becoming the apex of his vengeance against the leaders of the financial market, that orchestrates his downfall behind his back. In a world where luxury, money, greed and power games are at the forefront of the coffee table every day, the winner is the one who always thinks ahead of his enemies, knowing that you have no friends or allies to support you whatsoever.    

Bright enough to absorb the professional dynamics of the financial market, Tourneuil rapidly acknowledges each and every possible aspect of the environment. Travelling constantly to close deals and arrange an equilibrium between his hold on power, and the constant demands of the shareholders – specially Dittmar – Tourneuil soon learns that he is playing a game that no one can really win. In the end, to postpone his downfall, and to delay the attack of his enemies on him, is the best he can do. Nonetheless, he arranges the Japanese bank deal to be fully and embarrassedly compromised, threating to expose the fraudulent ordeal involving the acquisition. 

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Le Capital is a very good movie, that really captures the attention of the viewer from the very beginning until the last scene. Showing literally all the wild interests that lies behind a corporative organization, and all the sordid intricacies that revolves around the financial market, and how this affects us, ordinary human beings, the film is very honest about all the dirtiness, political intrigues, struggles for power, emotional tensions and corrupt schemes of the economic system, exposing the perfidious rottenness of a machinery that feeds itself from the very own greed of human ambition, in a parallel pursue of power, influence and fortune, that never rests, until someone is hurt, or finally out of the game. 

With incredible performances, amazing dialogues, systematic realism and a very graceful lust that seems to contaminate each and every character within the movie – specially Tourneuil, the lead character – Le Capital is a formidable, imaginative, intriguing and very crude portrait of what really happens in the financial market: a real den of wild animals – specially tigers and lions – eager for victims, disposable flesh, and ready to devour themselves vehemently, and without any compassion or consideration. The movie shows a system where no one have any kind of friends or colleagues, only explicit and implicit enemies, and the ones who are kings today, probably will suffer a tremendous and unpredictable downfall tomorrow. A major, superb and very drastic movie, Le Capital has everything an excellent movie about the financial market is expected to have: tension, emotional affliction, intrigues, inevitable conflicts of personality, collisions of interest, and a vast amount of illicit schemes. If you like this genre of movie, you certainly can’t afford to miss Le Capital.    



​Wagner

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