Coup!

The film takes advantage of a century-old event to deal with a subject that could not be more relevant today.

This film shows in a casual and clever way the class society and at the same time presents an alternative, which only emerges through a social crisis.

It is structured like a thriller and manages to maintain a constant tension, but includes various aspects of living together as a society, without falling into a black and white thinking.

Instead of showing that the rich can't help exploiting their power and giving them some kind of legitimacy, as in films like "Triangle of Sadness", the film finds a much more clever solution without being cautionary.

Jaunty class-war drama "Coup" has a decent premise & good performances, but its main characters are all so dislikable that it fails to hold attention. As the 1918 Spanish Flu bites, well-to-do journo Billy Magnussen secretly flees with wife Sarah Gadon & kids to his island country estate, pretending to still be in NY as he lambasts the govt to fuel his own political ambitions... til mysterious new chef Peter Sarsgaard stokes ill-feeling among his staff & family, as the 'plague' starts to grip the island, and the poop hits Magnussen's fan. Co-writers / co-directors Austin Stark & debutant Joseph Schuman offer an interesting analogy... but it just isn't interesting nor engaging enough.

Generally invited in the shadow of the epidemic changing standards and criteria in society, the film did not participate in anything except the concept of imbalance.

So I think the parallelism of the societal imbalance with the imbalance of some events in the film is justified.

There is light comedy and from there it moves to dark drama to remind people of the events of Covid and what happened in the minds while taking into account the time period. This is all that is good.

Cons: The ending isn't perfect. Some of the character motivations and transformation were rushed.

-Slow paced and small world I love this atmosphere.

A sort of new "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The eternal theme of the confrontation between the Dionysian and Apollonian principles, in which there is no clear good and evil, sides of light and darkness. Here, however, in the Dionysian principle there is less truth than in "The Cuckoo's Nest", and here it is more like a devil who can get to his victims only through their weaknesses and vices. This amazing ambivalence in every moment of the film, like in Merezhkovsky's novels, where good and evil are so mixed up with each other that you begin to understand they are just sides of the same coin. And this depth is right up to the very last frame, literally.

It is 1918 and the world is at war. Floyd Monk (Peter Sarsgaard) is a wannabe revolutionary who complains that the Spanish Flu is killing more people than the war. He argues for a full shutdown which can be seen as treasonous. He becomes a chef in a large estate on an island. The owner Jay Horton (Billy Magnussen) and his wife Julie (Sarah Gadon) have two young children. Jay insists on not killing anything and being vegetarian. Floyd keeps stirring up conflicts as he hides from the authorities.

Sarsgaard is great and playful. This story has a new resonance after COVID. The black humor doesn't always work. The story is a little rambling and a bit disconnected. I would like the servants to be more specific. The wife needs an extra scene or two. This is interesting although it does need something more.