The sweet greed
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The sweet greed |
| Original title | Il capitale umano |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Paolo Virzì |
| script | Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni , Francesco Piccolo |
| production |
Marco Cohen , Benedetto Habib , Fabrizio Donvito |
| music | Carlo Virzì |
| camera |
Jérôme Alméras , Simon Beaufils |
| cut | Cecilia Zanuso |
| occupation | |
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The sweet greed (original title: Il capitale umano ) is an Italian - French film drama based on a novel by Stephen Amidon . Directed by Paolo Virzì . The film was released in German cinemas on January 8, 2015 .
action
A waiter rides his bike home after work. When two cars meet on the narrow, dark country road, one of them pushes him into the ditch and remains there.
The film describes the further events from the point of view of three actors. The point of connection is a dinner at the private school, which Serena Ossola and Massimiliano Bernaschi attend.
Chapter I - Dino The real estate agent Dino Ossola drives his daughter Serena to her friend Massimiliano Bernaschi, who lives with his wealthy parents in a large property. Dino has heard that Giovanni Bernaschi runs a fund that is generating a forty percent return and wants to get involved. In addition, an invitation to tennis doubles comes in handy. In fact, he can start with a deposit of 700,000 euros. To do this, he takes out a mortgage on his house.
Dino feels honored that he is allowed to sit at the Bernaschi family table at the debt dinner. However, his pregnant wife soon becomes nauseous and they have to go to the hospital.
The next day Giovanni informs Dino that his deposit is only a fraction of its original value. Dino, who would then be ruined, wants all his money back, but Giovanni refuses.
Chapter II - Carla Carla Bernaschi leads a life of luxury. When she learns that the closed local theater is about to be converted into apartments, she decides to save it and continue to operate as a theater. Her husband Giovanni promises to finance the necessary renovation work. She gets artistic advice and appoints Donato, a professor, as artistic director.
Soon Giovanni's business is going to be worse; he yells on the phone, throws dishes from the table and tells Carla that the theater has to be sold for financial reasons.
When Carla drives to dinner, she cries in the car in front of the school. Then she pulls herself together, enters the hall and takes a seat at the table. Other guests admire her good looks. After dinner, Giovanni goes to Milan for business meetings.
Carla has invited Donato over. He admires Carla, who used to be an actress, and she, too, feels drawn to him. They sleep together in the house's film room. When her son Massimiliano comes home drunk from a party, he sees his mother saying goodbye to Donato with a kiss.
The next day, Carla regrets her affair and confesses to Donato that her theater has no future. Donato insults her as a dilettante .
In the meantime, the police have determined that the cyclist was hit by Massimiliano Bernaschi's SUV. An inspector interrogates Massimiliano, who does not remember anything because of his intoxication, and his friend Serena, who asserts that Massimiliano did not drive the car.
Chapter III - Serena Serena and Massimiliano have split up at Serena's request, but have not revealed anything to those around them. Serena falls in love with Luca Ambrosini, who was in jail for drug possession . However, these drugs belonged to his uncle. On the evening of the school dinner she lies in bed with Luca, so that she takes a seat at the family table late.
At a post-school dinner party, Massimiliano gets so drunk that he cannot drive home in his car. He calls his mother, but she doesn't answer the phone because she is sleeping with Donato. So he asks for Serena, who borrows her stepmother Roberta's car and drives to the party accompanied by Luca. They get the drunk Massimiliano in Roberta's car and Luca drives Massimiliano's SUV . On the way to the Bernaschis' house, there is a fatal accident with the bicycling waiter from the prologue scene.
Luca blames herself, but Serena wants to direct suspicion to other party guests by claiming that the key to the SUV was in the glove compartment.
Chapter IV - Human Capital The cyclist succumbs to injuries. Serena writes a message to Luca that she won't betray him. Her father accidentally reads the message on her computer and now sees a way to get back at his lost money. Carla pays him 700,000 euros plus forty percent interest for the address of the unlucky driver. Dino also demands a kiss from her.
Serena confides in her stepmother Roberta. Together they drive to the apartment building where Luca and his uncle live. Police officers are already standing in front of the house. Serena runs past them into Luca's apartment, where paramedics are trying to find Luca, who has cut his wrists. Serena collapses crying in Roberta's arms.
Giovanni Bernaschi has speculated on the economic collapse of his country. When this occurs, a lot of money flows into his fund and instead of crisis talks Giovanni can celebrate brilliant parties and be admired by his guests.
Serena visits Luca in prison.
Insurance pays 218,976 euros for the cyclist. It determined its value as human capital.
criticism
"" The sweet greed "is a class struggle drama in which neither clichés nor meanness are spared. Nevertheless, one often watches with enthusiasm the widespread human and moral misery. Why? Because the world in which this mud fight takes place, the hill country of the Brianza region north of Milan, is almost naturally immensely beautiful. Because director Virzi’s refusal to take sides with any of the characters involved creates a grim comedy. And because the two female leading actresses Bruni-Tedeschi and Gioli grow dear to the cinema audience despite all the adversities. "
"The German title" Die süße Gier "is somewhat crude reminiscent of" Das süße Leben "and Fellini's Roman society, which was already emulating the American way of life. Unlike back then, when his own material and idiosyncratic aesthetics determined the socially critical films by Fellini or Antonioni, Virzì uses a template and, with his naturalistic image design, makes little effort to get beyond a flat image of today's conditions. The three-part series, however, gives the actors a lot of leeway, especially Fabrizio Bentivoglio as Dino [...] and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as Carla. Outstanding is the discovery of Matilde Gioli as Serena, a fighter who, with passion and a love of truth, represents something like a glimmer of hope "
Web links
- The sweet greed in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The sweet greed in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Sweet Greed . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 794 K).
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Feature film "Die Süße Gier": In the land of the rather terrible people , spiegel.de , January 10, 2015, accessed on January 14, 2015
- ↑ Marli Feldvoss: Critique of Die süße Gier , epd-film.de , December 15, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2015