Word: costas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Written and directed by Costa-Gavras...
Unlike many crime films, Family Business has a moral code, for the family never uses weapons in its burglaries. Tranquilizer guns, but not weapons. And when the father finally teams up with "The Organization" towards the end of the film, Costa-Gavras makes this the sign of the family's break...
...moral question in the film is annoying and out of place. But it is hardly surprising, coming from a director known for political activism. Z, a controversial film about a political revolution in Greece, vaulted Costa-Gavras to fame in 1969. And Missing, the story of an American who "disappears" in the political turmoil of a Central American dictatorship, re-established the director as a major force in political filmmaking...
...other Costa-Gavras films, including a recent and little-known picture about an American woman who is sucked into spying for Israeli intelligence yet who thinks she is in love with a handsome Palestinian, lack both political insight and quality. Unfortunately, Costa-Gavras is no Cocteau and does not succeed in being a jack of all trades...
Crime, in the end, does not pay. Nevertheless, it is rather too convenient of Costa-Gavras to remind his audience of this fact only after they have sat through an hour and a half of his film...