The Nest (2020)
Directed by Sean Durkin
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.
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The film is set expressly in the financial world in the mid-nineteen-eighties, in the same milieu as modern classics of the genre such as “Wall Street” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” the age of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, which unleashed a new age of financial speculation and manipulation.
If Rory seems a template for something like the DiCaprio figure in Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street , he is a man strangled and not enlivened by the penny-stock tier, the desperation behind his million dollar smile reminiscent of Billy Wilder’s darker portraits of humanity.
The follow-up to director Sean Durkin's powerful, highly acclaimed feature debut Martha Marcy May Marlene , from 2011, The Nest may somewhat resemble movies about unchecked greed and the obsessive search for status ( Wall Street , The Wolf of Wall Street , etc.), but it doesn't include the flashy, intoxicating excitement of those films.
It’s tempting to call this a fable or allegory that distills the materialistic, ruthless spirit of the ’80s, the furies glimpsed in films such as The Wolf of Wall Street , Trading Places , Wall Street , Working Girl , Broadcast News , and others.
The Nest recalls, in particular, Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017).