The Phoenician Scheme

[WorldForgot]

Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn, their tutor.
 
With: Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Mathieu Amalric, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis.

[WorldForgot]

"I don't need my human rights."

A simple and elegant fable about restoring the sap that has been sucked out of the Earth and our souls - how money moves between cartels of bureacracies (and once-friends) leaving each inch plundered and whether it's spirit, opportunism, or brute force that can set things on even keel.

Its heart is set in the same spot as Megalopolis' Crassus III's. There is a great deal thematically in common with the two, though they could not be more different formally. I think this brisk adventure-flick will sit better with audiences and yet I wonder if either movie can convince young acolytes toward a pious path. I'm so glad both exist.

Considering that Roman Coppola and Wes are such tight friends and wrote the story together, I do wonder if it was an explicit intention for AZK to be a slight amalgam of FFC and other billionaires or if it was only a happenstance, subconscious.