In Sundance Satire ‘Veni Vidi Vici’ the Super-Rich Continue to Get Away With Murder: ‘There Is More Than One Jeffrey Epstein Out There’
18.01.2024 - 13:37
/ variety.com
Marta 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. It’s always like that and it will be like that for his children. We wanted to tell this story from the perspective of Maynard’s teenage daughter, because that might be our future.
They will be in power, owning everything we care about, unless we do something about it,” points out Niemann, while Hoels adds: “There was this doc ‘Born Rich’ [directed by Jamie Johnson] and Ivanka Trump was one of his interviewees. She was well-spoken and rational, but we have seen her ‘progress’ since then. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but we can’t blame them if we don’t change the rules.” Despite the lives of the ultra-rich being dissected in the likes of smash hits “Succession” and “Saltburn,” Hoesl and Niemann – also behind “Davos” – have been researching the topic for years.
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