Greedy People (2024)
Directed by Potsy Ponciroli
The eclectic residents of a small, picturesque island town must navigate a sensational murder and the discovery of a million dollars, leading to a series of increasingly bad decisions which upend the once-peaceful community.
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When the film sits firmly in the comedy camp, it excels — the humour is dry, but laugh-out-loud funny, with the nuances of local island life and the characters who inhabit it setting up for a quirky take on the police procedural in the vein of Fargo (1996).
All the markers of a classic Coen Brothers’ crime comedy are there in Potsy Ponciroli’s Greedy People — the third film released this year that promises but never quite manages to recreate the gut-busting horrors and pleasures of Ethan and Joel Coen’s 1996 film Fargo.
At the end of Fargo, Frances McDormand’s Marge Gunderson remarks, “There’s more to life than a little money, you know? Don’t you know that? And here you are, and it’s a beautiful day.” It is a brilliant little speech, a sign that Marge was unfazed by the ridiculous scheme she uncovered. In Greedy People, a film where everyone—including the filmmakers—needs someone like Marge on their shoulder, her speech can feel like a constant refrain.