In a nutshell, Giuliano Montaldo's drama The Entrepreneur is as dull as its color palette: gray. If you require an explanation on how I even got to this judgment, grant me permission to elucidate why.
Shot in dim if not harshly faded colors (almost black-and-white) that are occasionally fashionable, but most of the times somnolent, the movie pivots around a factory owner Nicola (Pierfrancesco Favino, Angels & Demons) as he tries to resolve his business and marital issues. His company is on the brink of bankruptcy and the only way to get refinancing is that if he gets his wealthy and venal mother-in-law (Elisabetta Piccolomini) to sign as his guarantor. His pride conclusively besmirch his marriage with his beautiful wife Laura (Carolina Crescentini) who amid her husband's self-solitude makes friends with a garage attendant named Gabriel (Eduard Gabia). Nicola, being the arsehole he is and the bigger that he's becoming, of course, believes a different story.
The movie's colors, or lack thereof, in fact is not the entire issue. The script is.
While there are moments of brilliance in the picture, it doesn't fully finish the job that it was supposed to. Instead, we are presented with a wearying tale of trust issues rather than an all-out delicious avarice and fear of loss centered in an industrialist parable. And the almost-monochromatic cinematography (while highly stylized in its own merits) doesn't exactly aid the movie.
Favino ably plays the prideful, egotistic businessman and the suspecting husband. Piccolomini, in a thankless role, brings a pinch of light in this stiflingly dull drama.
VERDICT: B-
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