2016 · thriller · drama
The Outsider
Directed by Christophe Barratier1h 57m2016
A drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the rise and fall of anonymous trader turned superstar turned escape goat - Jérôme Kerviel - just as the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding
Our read: The Outsider (2016) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
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