In Sundance Satire ‘Veni Vidi Vici’ the Super-Rich Continue to Get Away With Murder: ‘There Is More Than One Jeffrey Epstein Out There’
variety.comMarta Balaga Veni, vidi, vici: “I came, I saw, I conquered,” reportedly said Julius Caesar after an especially swift victory.
Now, his words echo in Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann’s satire about a family so powerful it can get away with murder. Literally. “Imagine you are above the law.
You can do anything. It’s frustrating, because sometimes you want the world to wake up and yet nothing happens. It’s really funny and really sad,” Hoesl tells Variety. “These people want to be stopped.
They leave all these traces, so why does no one speak up? There is more than one Jeffrey Epstein out there.” Premiering at Sundance and Rotterdam – and produced by Ulrich Seidl for Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion, with Magnify handling sales – “Veni Vidi Vici” takes a closer look at the Maynard clan where “family is everything,” but human life means nothing. “Our main character always wins.
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