Michael Moore tackles capitalism
2009-07-10 18:01
Los Angeles - Firebrand filmmaker Michael Moore is putting a romantic twist on his latest documentary, calling it Capitalism: A Love Story.
Moore, who targeted the Bush administration in Fahrenheit 9/11 and the healthcare industry in Sicko, is focusing on the global economic meltdown in his new movie which is set for an October 2 release by Overture Films and Paramount Vantage.
Moore said in a statement on Thursday that it was time for him to make a "relationship movie".
"It will be the perfect date movie. It's got it all - lust, passion, romance, and 14,000 jobs being eliminated every day. It's a forbidden love, one that dare not speak its name. Heck, let's just say it: It's Capitalism," he said.
The movie's distributors said Moore, 55, was returning to an issue that began his career - the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and other citizens.
Moore touched on economic carnage with his 1989 breakthrough Roger and Me, in which he documented the effect of General Motors' decline on his hometown of Flint, Michigan.
Moore won an Oscar in 2003 for his gun-control study Bowling for Columbine, and followed up the next year with the incendiary Fahrenheit 9/11, which savaged former U.S. President George W. Bush and the war on terrorism, and became a box office hit.
- Reuters