Human Capital (2013) ( Il capitale umano )

Human Capital (2013) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Il capitale umano
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Behind the scenes
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Music Video
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Paolo Virzì

Written By:
Stephen Amidon
Paolo Virzì

Actors:
Fabrizio Bentivoglio ..... Dino Ossola
Matilde Gioli ..... Serena Ossola
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi ..... Carla Bernaschi
Guglielmo Pinelli ..... Massimiliano Bernaschi
Fabrizio Gifuni ..... Giovanni Bernaschi
Gigio Alberti ..... Giampi
Valeria Golino ..... Roberta
Silvia Cohen ..... Adriana Crosetti
Luigi Lo Cascio ..... Donato, il professor Russomanno
Bebo Storti ..... L'ispettore
Giovanni Anzaldo ..... Luca Ambrosini
Paolo Pierobon ..... Lo zio Davide
Gianluca Di Lauro ..... Fabrizio, il cameriere in bici
Stefano Fiorentino ..... Amico e socio di Bernaschi
Fulvio Milani ..... Altro amico di Bernaschi

Synopsis:

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, 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. Paolo Virzi's taut character study deconstructs the typical linear narrative, observing transformative events from each character's perspective. The result is a nuanced account of desire, greed and the value of human life in an age of rampant capitalism and financial manipulation.

We open on a dark, snowy night in northern Italy-and begin at the end. Approaching a stranger's tragic death from three vastly different perspectives, the lives of two families, at first only loosely linked by their teenagers' relationship, overlap in multitudinous ways to devastating effect. Valeria Golina and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, two of Italy's leading actresses, star in a story based on Stephen Amidon's best-selling book of the same name that twists love, class, and ambition into a singular, true-life story. As the players tumble toward an ill-fated event of which they are inextricably linked, Paolo Virzi's refined three-chapter tale reveals a cultural and systemic disparity in the value of human life.

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 30 March, 2015.

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