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  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary Based on the international bestseller by economist Thomas Piketty, this documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film...

Directed By: Justin Pemberton

Written By: Thomas Piketty, Justin Pemberton, Matthew Metcalfe

  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2020
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 43 m

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Based on the international bestseller by economist Thomas Piketty, this documentary is an eye-opening journey through wealth and power, a film that breaks the popular assumption that the accumulation of capital runs hand in hand with social progress, and shines a new light on today’s growing inequalities. Traveling through time, the film...

Directed By: Justin Pemberton

Written By: Thomas Piketty, Justin Pemberton, Matthew Metcalfe

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Michael Douglas

Gordon Gekko

Vanessa Redgrave

Self - protester

Ronald Reagan

Self

Daniel Huttlestone

Gavroche

George W. Bush

Self

Margaret Thatcher

Self

Kate Williams

Self - Professor of History, University of Reading

Gillian Tett

Self - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times

Ian Bremmer

Self - President and Founder, Eurasia Group

Faiza Shaheen

Self - Director of Labor and Social Research Center

Joseph Stiglitz

Self - Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Rana Foroohar

Self - Associate Editor, Financial Times

Thomas Piketty

Self

Gabriel Zucman

Self - Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Suresh Naidu

Self - Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Simon Johnson

Self - Former IMF Chief Economist (2007-2008)

Paul Mason

Self - British Journalist

Lucas Chancel

Self - Co-Director of World Disparity Research Institute

Paul Piff

Self - Social Psychologist, University of California, Berkeley

Francis Fukuyama

Self - Political Scientist

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
70
78% Positive
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
70
78% Positive
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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89
Apr 30, 2020
If there's a depressing note to Piketty's circular view of history, it's his belief that egalitarianism often springs from catastrophic disaster ("everyone is equal in death" becomes a refrain), and that it's the slow grind of extreme wealth and extreme poverty that breeds those disasters.
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88
Apr 30, 2020
Capital in the 21st Century, in documentary form, is an almost overwhelming alarm bell, a call to action and a fact, chart, animated illustration-and-quote-stuffed history of “how we got here” in the first place.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 7 User Ratings
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43% Positive
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29% Mixed
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29% Negative
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70
May 4, 2020
This is a movie that provokes a consistent sense of “Whoa!” By the end, you’ll know with greater clarity than you did before why we’re in the mess we’re in.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
May 1, 2020
As directed by New Zealand filmmaker Justin Pemberton, “Capital” is a sleek tour of economic history over the last 400 years or so.
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 30, 2020
The film necessarily lacks the thoroughness and interrogative qualities of Piketty’s written approach. More than the cutaways to Gordon Gekko and the Simpsons, it tends to be the economist’s own observations that satisfy the true wonk itch.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 28, 2020
Documentaries should be more than a vehicle for information. Here, the message is hard to argue with, but the medium – an excess of music video-style cutting, contemporary pop culture montages and literal music cues – does the material no favours.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 28, 2020
Justin Pemberton’s documentary, based on the bestselling book by French economist Thomas Piketty, tells us a story no less depressing or gruesomely hypnotic for being so familiar – like observing a slo-mo driverless car crash from the passenger seat.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
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Production Company General Film Corporation, Upside Production
Release Date May 1, 2020
Duration 1 h 43 m
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Website https://21shihonn.com/
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Awards

Hamburg Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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