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(aka "Human Capital" or "Les opportunistes")
directed by Paolo Virzì
Italy/France 2013
Based on the 2004 novel by Stephen
Amidon but transplanted to Italy, HUMAN CAPITAL examines
the intertwined lives of two families whose trials amidst the
European economic debt crisis of 2010 are compounded by a tragic
event. When real estate agent Dino (Fabrizio Bentivoglio,
REMEMBER ME, MY LOVE) drops his daughter Serena (Matilde
Gioli) off one day at her boyfriend Massimiliano's (Guglielmo
Pinelli) home, he makes the acquaintance of the boy's father
Giovanni Bernaschi (Fabrizio Gifuni, THE BEST OF YOUTH).
Winning him over as a doubles partner and exploiting the
friendship between their children, Dino finagles an invitation
to invest a minimum share in the Bernaschi hedge fund which
promises a forty-to-fifty percent return. Tricking his lawyer
friend Giampiero (Gigio Alberti, MY MOTHER'S SMILE) into
securing him a 700,000 Euro loan using his house as collateral
to expand his business, he instead signs onto the hedge fund and
takes a smaller, cheaper office just as his wife Roberta
(Valeria Golino,
THE
GIRL BY THE LAKE) reveals that she is pregnant and it
seems as though Serena may need to go to college in New York to
keep up with the Bernaschis. Bernaschi's unhappy wife Carla
(Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, 5X2) is unfulfilled until she
discovers that the town's historic theatre is in need of
restoration and will otherwise be turned into a shopping mall or
apartment building. Appealing to her husband to fund the
restoration, Giovanni turns it into a business proposition and
Clara becomes overwhelmed as the head a board of directors. She
begins an affair with a drama teacher (Luigi Lo Cascio,
GOOD MORNING, NIGHT) and plans to make him the
theatre's artistic director when Giovanni reveals that they will
have to sell the theatre just to keep afloat when his bet on the
economic downfall of the country is slow in coming to fruition.
When a hit-and-run incident along a country road shines the
spotlight on Massimiliano and Serena, the dysfunctions in both
families and the tenuousness of friendships are brought to the
fore. |
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Theatrical Release: 9 January 2014 (Italy)
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DVD Review: Film Movement - Region 1 - NTSC
Big thanks to Eric Cotenas for the Review!
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Runtime | 1:50:28 | |
Video |
2.40:1 Original Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced |
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Audio | Italian Dolby Digital 5.1; Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo | |
Subtitles | English, none | |
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Release Information: Studio: Film Movement Aspect Ratio:
Edition Details: Chapters 12 |
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Film Movement's
dual-layer, progressive, anamorphic DVD of this Arri Alexa-photographed
feature can look a bit flat in the darker scenes, and one would
have thought a Best Foreign Film Academy Award submission would
have warranted a Blu-ray release. The Italian 5.1 track
generally favors the front channels since it is a talky film,
but atmospheric effects and the score have a depth not so
evident in the 2.0 downmix. The film can be viewed with either
optional English subtitles or English closed-captioning. |
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