The character of British fashion mogul Sir Richard McCreadie in the new satire Greed is fictional, but as you will see in this very potent film from writer-director Michael Winterbottom (co-written…
is fictional, but as you will see in this very potent film from writer-director Michael Winterbottom , he cuts close to the bone. With tabloid-fodder billionaires so much in the news today, and at the center of the U.S. presidential race, you could be forgiven if you think star Steve Coogan is channeling anyone we might know.
Winterbottom paints a not-so-pretty picture of this guy using various devices to chart his rise , and even a biographer named Nick he hires to write his story, with Nick serving as kind of a Greek chorus to all that is going on here. And there is agoing on as the plot centers on an elaborate and decadent 60th birthday party McCreadie is throwing for himself on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Winterbottom takes this whole story progressively darker as it goes along and we enter the head of a Trumpian-style man who willingly cuts every corner in order to line his own pockets and present a certain image to the world, all the while demanding respect from his underlings. The device of a government hearing into his activities also is used, and that is what got Winterbottom interested in this kind of tale when he saw Green subjected to one of them.
Coogan, who has worked numerous times with Winterbottom, is ideal casting here and turns in one of his best film performances, complete with ultra-white dentures contrasting the permanently manufactured tan on his face. Isla Fisher is lots of fun as his ex-wife, set up with her own payoff and perhaps forging a better understanding of her ex than when they were together.
Producers are Damian Jones and Melissa Parmenter. Sony Pictures Classics puts it in limited release today. Check out my video review at the link above with scenes from the film.Read More About:
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