{"id":2021861,"date":"2025-09-14T21:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2021861"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:28:21","slug":"sacrifice-review-virtue-signaling-billionaires-dance-on-the-edge-of-a-volcano-in-romain-gavras-scattershot-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sacrifice-review-virtue-signaling-billionaires-dance-on-the-edge-of-a-volcano-in-romain-gavras-scattershot-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sacrifice\u2019 Review: Virtue-Signaling Billionaires Dance on the Edge of a Volcano in Romain Gavras\u2019 Scattershot Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">How many rebellious movies about ganging up to overthrow the status quo does one need to make before uneasy governments start to put you on some kind of watch list? For <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0310615\/\">Romain Gavras<\/a>, son of the legendary \u201cZ\u201d director and political critic <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002020\/\">Costa-Gavras<\/a>, the count now stands at three. First, there was his 2010 debut, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1651328\/\">Our Day Will Come<\/a>,\u201d an unnerving call-to-action in which redheads inherit the earth, followed by the white-knuckle \u201cAthena,\u201d about an uprising in a Paris apartment bloc. Now comes the splashy \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32268992\/\">Sacrifice<\/a>,\u201d which takes a more satirical view of ecoterrorism and the end of days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32268992\/\">Sacrifice<\/a>\u201d feels like the music-video director\u2019s reaction to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1128037\/\">Ruben \u00d6stlund<\/a>\u2019s brand of comedy, an elevated form of irony that has earned the Swedish director (who started out making snowboarding videos for a ski resort) two Palme d\u2019Or trophies for his films \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7322224\/\">Triangle of Sadness<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4995790\/\">The Square<\/a>.\u201d There\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many rebellious movies about ganging up to overthrow the status quo does one need to make before uneasy governments start to put you on some kind of watch list? For Romain Gavras, son of the legendary \u201cZ\u201d director and political critic Costa-Gavras, the count now stands at three. 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