Filmen Le Capital är nästan två timmar lång, och då är det bra om vi kan starta filmen direkt kl 19.00. Kom därför gärna en kvart före, så hinner vi duka bordet. Om någon kör bil så finns det ett kort till gratisparkering! /väl mött, Ingrid
Välkomna till filmvisning, miniknytis och goda samtal. Jag kokar te och bakar något till. Alla får bidra med något litet till bordet. Det brukar bli väldigt trevligt!!! Trots att Costa-Gavras vunnit såväl Guldpalmen (för Missing, 1982) vid Filmfestivalen i Cannes, Oscar för bästa utländska film samt Guldbjörnen vid Filmfestivalen i Berlin (för Music Box, 1990) är han relativt okänd av allmänheten. Detta är särskilt underligt eftersom hans filmer vanligtvis är lätta att tycka om, med ett högt tempo och en bra historia. I Le Capital (2012), icke biografdistribuerad i Sverige, ser vi bland andra den irländske sskådespelaren Garbriel Byrne. Film rewiev: Le Capital is a European financial thriller made in France by Greek director Costa-Gavras that had its première at the Toronto Film Festival in 2012, was nominated for the 2012 Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival but to date has not been released in Britain. Costa-Gavras is notable for his Academy Award winning film Z (1969), Missing (1982) which won the Palme d Or at Cannes and Music Box (1989) winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin. Costa-Gavras based his film on the 2004 novel Le Capital by French banker Stephane Osmont but was also inspired by the book Totalitarian Capitalism by Jean Peyrelvade. The film stars Moroccan actor Gad Elmaleh and also Gabriel Byrne, the Irish actor memorable in the 1995 noir film The Usual Suspects. Le Capital is a fast-paced film set in the closed world of investment banking full of cunning boardroom politics, billion-dollar banking takeovers, supermodels, corporate suits in jets globe-trotting from Paris to London, New York, Tokyo and Miami. The main protagonist played with a reptilian self-awareness by Elmaleh occasionally breaks the fourth wall and gives Brechtian asides to the audience. Elmaleh has the best lines such as money makes people respect you, money is the master, money never sleeps . The film is dominated by memories of the global financial capitalist meltdown of 2008 caused by overproduction in the housing sub-prime market, deregulation of commercial bank securities such as the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, and the use of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and other derivatives described as financial weapons of mass destruction by Warren Buffett. The crisis was such that Ben Bernanke, head of the US Federal Reserve, feared the end of capitalism and said of the $700 billion emergency bailout of banks: if we don t do this, we may not have an economy on Monday . According to Roger C Altman in The Great Crash 2008 losses totalled $8.3 trillion.
