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Foster's fourth feature film sees a TV financial guru played
by George Clooney held hostage live on air as Jack O'Connell in
the role of a disillusioned viewer decides to take revenge after
he loses money following advice from Clooney.
"I hadn't seen much response to the financial crisis by
Hollywood," said Dominic West, star of "The Wire" and "The
Affair" who plays a banker in Foster's film, told a news
conference just before the premiere.
"This attracted me for that reason - it was holding the bankers
to account in a very graphic, dramatic way that I think
resonated very much. Then I realised I was going to be the evil
banker," said West.
The film co-stars Julia Roberts, who makes her Cannes debut.
"I discovered the role would entail holding George Clooney
hostage, likewise Julia Roberts and going after Dominic West
with a gun and a bomb vest, a detonator..., so I thought that
was within my capabilities," said O'Connell.
Clooney also praised "Money Monster" for trying to teach a
lesson.
"It just seems that we've gotten used to the idea that some
schmuck can get up on television and tell you where to put your
money and they do it out of entertainment, and people listen to
them and do it and lose things in real life, and the rest of the
world goes on unhurt by all these things," he said.
Foster, 53, a two-time Academy Award winner as best actress who
since 1991 has also directed "Little Man Tate", "Home for the
Holidays" and "The Beaver", believes her new movie has just the
right balance to find its audience.
"I think people do still want to make movies that make them
think, that make them feel, that don't manipulate them," she
said.
"But there aren't very many being made in the mainstream world.
So one of the reasons why I think this film belongs here in some
ways is that it's challenging how stories are told and that you
do not have to choose between being a mainstream film and being
an intelligent movie. You can be both."
"Money Monsters" comes a year after "The Big Short", about
renegade Wall Street fund managers during the financial crisis.
"The Big Short" won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay.
(Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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