Human Capital

Name: Human Capital
Genre: Drama
Released: January 14, 2015
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 63

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Film Movement | Release Date: January 14, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: Human Capital begins at the end, as a cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the events leading up to the accident, the lives of the well-to-do Bernaschi family, privileged and detached, will intertwine with the Ossolas, struggling to keep their comfortable middle-class life, inHuman Capital begins at the end, as a cyclist is run off the road by a careening SUV the night before Christmas Eve. As details emerge of the events leading up to the accident, the lives of the well-to-do Bernaschi family, privileged and detached, will intertwine with the Ossolas, struggling to keep their comfortable middle-class life, in ways neither could have expected. Dino Ossola (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), in dire financial straits, anticipates the birth of twins with his second wife (Valeria Golino). Meanwhile, Dino's teenage daughter's relationship with hedge-fund manager Giovanni Bernaschi's playboy son complicates an already tricky social dance of status, money and ambition. [Film Movement]… Expand

Director: Paolo Virzì

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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Alan Scherstuhl

Jan 13, 2015

The biggest suspense: As everything gets worse for everyone, will this consummate director's outraged worldview afford anyone any pity? At first you'll seethe — then your heart will ache. Read full review

Deborah Young

Dec 8, 2014

The film is more than just a chic thriller. Alongside its clear -- at times overly so -- depiction the pain and vanity of social inequality, Virzi and the fine cast explore the unhappiness of rich and poor alike in a society that measures a person’s value in terms of euros. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Jan 13, 2015

What makes Human Capital a worthwhile experience is the way [Virzí] focuses on understanding his characters’ desires, rather than deriding them as unworthy. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jan 15, 2015

Melding a morality play with a glossy soap, Italy’s Human Capital is a fairly successful balance of entertainment and ideas. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jan 13, 2015

It’s all handsomely managed, polished and professional, but the pieces are too neatly manufactured to feel as if anything is truly at stake. Read full review

Simon Kinnear

Dec 8, 2014

Shame that the plotting favours narrative intrigue over character depth, creating a film whose message is witnessed rather than felt. Read full review

John Bleasdale

Dec 8, 2014

Although the thriller like approach makes the unveiling of the story intermittently interesting, Human Capital stumbles on its blandly predictable, two dimensional characters and the implausible melodrama of its latter stages. Read full review

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kathytreece

Nov 12, 2016

I watched this movie at home on Netflix. I believe it is in Italian with English subtitles. There were a lot of story twists and turns. The story was retold from the perspective of each of the main characters. Loved it. The characters were all believable in their roles.

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LeZee

Sep 24, 2015

Finding the truth behind a mistake.

Lately I have been watching lots of movies from the book adaptation and here it comes another one. This time an English language novel transformed into an Italian movie. But what I heard is that a few changes were made to bring the Italian flavor. Well,Finding the truth behind a mistake.

Lately I have been watching lots of movies from the book adaptation and here it comes another one. This time an English language novel transformed into an Italian movie. But what I heard is that a few changes were made to bring the Italian flavor. Well, what could I say more, if you know the director you will say he's the right person to make it happen and he did excellently. Recruited the best cast and extracted best out of them.

The story of the two families narrated in the different streams when a cyclist got hit by a car on the Christmas eve. So the question has been asked, how did it happen? And who did it? The characters from two families begin to expose their role on that accident night revealing who did what. Dino, a realtor sees an opportunity to get into a big earning league so he decides to invest a large amount on it. Followed by the recession he has to face the reality of business that puts his life on a stake. Carla, the wife of a multimillionaire gives a financial support for the struggling company. Later she has to let it go when her husband's business begins to fall apart. Serena, the daughter of Dino and Massimiliano, son of Carla are the close friends. Their story follows where one of them finds their true love and another one get into sadness for some reason. When all these three episodes concludes the final chapter begins to unveil the truth with a twist.

''I know it does not look much like you, I tend to make things uglier.''

The story was told in layers which were divided into the four chapters. The story that happened between the particular timeline was repeated again and again with another character's perspective and with different camera angles till truth reveals in the final chapter. As it's still developing the opening was confusing which was the first chapter. Without holding-up in development, it straight goes with the main intention of the theme. If you pass that then the following segments interest you to make you guess the possibilities the suspense it hold. Kind of impossible to predict because of the introduction of the related characters to the particular incident consumed by the three quarters of the film. Which mean twist comes at the latter part which was really a good one. Each character that comes in the different episodes were incredible. Like, for a moment it was unhooked from the rest and centralizes that specific story stream, but the common event holds the story all together. I liked all the main characters, but the character Serena steals the final show. The role who played it was a new face and I kind see a great career ahead of her. (God, she's kind of attractive, hope its not me the only one to say that.) This was one of the recent best neo-noir. If somebody asks, I definitely recommend it.… Expand

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nicholasbert

Jun 10, 2015

Human Capital takes the worst clichés about Northern Italy (greed mainly) and transforms them into a portrait - a heavily politicised one, albeit - of suburban dissatisfaction, with some sort of mild thriller-like plot to contour it. The verisimilar acting of the cast and nature of theHuman Capital takes the worst clichés about Northern Italy (greed mainly) and transforms them into a portrait - a heavily politicised one, albeit - of suburban dissatisfaction, with some sort of mild thriller-like plot to contour it. The verisimilar acting of the cast and nature of the dialogues is to be appreciated, although sometimes they decay straight into clichés.

The most notable thing is the fragmented storytelling, encompassing three different perspectives of the same event and one final chapter to top it all - hardly anything new, but still, the three characters are very different from each other: we get to see the point of view of an overzealous and greedy real estate agent, the one of an upper-class trophy wife, the one of an uncorruptible young girl who doesn't seem to really care for money at all.

It's quite interesting and well manufactured.… Expand

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