“I am not political.” The stresses Jodie Foster in almost every interview for their new film Money Monster . Of course you want that nobody can believe. A film about the financial crisis, on speculators, greed and loss with Julia Roberts and George Clooney, Hollywood’s political flagship Star, it’s got to put a deeper message. And one would like to also so happy to be of this clever little woman tell America, the predatory capitalism, the financial crisis, Donald Trump. Or at least the constraints to which it is subject as a director and producer. But no, not a word of criticism of Mrs Foster.
As the 53-year-old Money Monster presented at the film festival in Cannes, in a white, simple dress between its two big stars, looked a bit like this, as if she could blow them equal. One still sees Foster the 13-year-old from Taxi Driver , the young woman from The Silence of the Lambs . She is in Hollywood comparison already an old soul.
For many years, Foster not only actress but also a producer and director. One of the few women who have made this leap in Hollywood. The world of financial speculation, tells of the Money Monster is, at first glance, a hard, very male dominated subject and thus a surprising choice of Foster. Your recent directorial work Little Man Tate , Home for the Holidays and finally The Beaver negotiated always family and the talented, but also misunderstood outsider. Many thought they were about Jodie Foster himself
Since she was three years old, she had spent as a child actress her siblings and single mother. You never made a secret of the fact that it had always been a small adults. And that they sometimes regret to have never experienced a teenage rebellion phase.
If you wanted to put it positively, one could say: Jodie Foster brings with Money Monster their puberty by. At least in the first half hour, this film is a garish satire on television and finance.
Jodie Foster
Born in 1962 in Los Angeles, was already at the age of three years for advertising films in front of the camera. Martin Scorsese occupied the then 13-year-old for the role of child prostitutes Iris in his film Taxi Driver. the Best Actress Oscar, she received in 1989 for her role as rape victims in Accused , A much wider audience, it was known by The Silence of the Lambs . Foster studied at Yale literature and founded her own production company Egg Pictures. Her directing credits include Little Man Tate (1991) or The Beaver (2011) with Mel Gibson, in which they also starred respectively. Her latest film Money Monster is on May 26 in the German cinemas.
That deserves respect. Because so far managed only a few directors, the financial crisis and the circumstances in which it has driven people to ruin, audience competitive market space. Money Monster now brings injuring, injured and middleman in the financial sector together in a somewhat constructed experiment. Lee Gates (George Clooney), overtightened television presenter of a stock show is taken hostage in his own mission and plugged into an explosives vest. Hostage taker is the young postman Kyle (Jack O’Connell), who has invested all his money in one of Gates’ “surefire stock tips”, the company Ibis. This has, however, lost overnight by an alleged computer glitch $ 800 million the company boss Walt Camby (Dominic West) is unattainable somewhere on an airplane.
is Clooney’s job it now to keep the hostage-takers in a good mood, raise Camby and at the same time to question their own job and the mechanisms of the major international banking critically. This works in the first half hour of the film very well, mainly Clooney’s comedic talent and the interplay between him and his director Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) is owed to. How has the relationship between the narcissist in front of the camera and the thin-lipped transmission manager developed in the control booth, recalls in good moments to the screwball comedies of Katharine Hebpurn and – yes, the comparison may exceptionally be cited again – Cary Grant.
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