Coup!

The film takes advantage of a century-old event to deal with a subject that could not be more relevant today.

This film shows in a casual and clever way the class society and at the same time presents an alternative, which only emerges through a social crisis.

It is structured like a thriller and manages to maintain a constant tension, but includes various aspects of living together as a society, without falling into a black and white thinking.

Instead of showing that the rich can't help exploiting their power and giving them some kind of legitimacy, as in films like "Triangle of Sadness", the film finds a much more clever solution without being cautionary.

What if the class structures of the early 1900s, which aren't really that much different than they are today, were isolated and broken down bit by bit? The movie Coup! Attempts to do just that, taking its eccentric cast of characters on an adventure through anarchy, madness, and self-discovery. Can it successfully blend this heavy message with its wit and charm?

Whether you enjoy the humor in this film or not, Coup! Is certainly an interesting look at class structure and how that structure can break down, given the right circumstances. It is a film with a lot to say and is able to say it rather well, mostly due to the talent of the cast. Clocking in at a crisp 90 minutes, and assuming you beheaded my warning about the humor and tone, you will not regret spending an hour and a half with these colorful characters.

A sort of new "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". The eternal theme of the confrontation between the Dionysian and Apollonian principles, in which there is no clear good and evil, sides of light and darkness. Here, however, in the Dionysian principle there is less truth than in "The Cuckoo's Nest", and here it is more like a devil who can get to his victims only through their weaknesses and vices. This amazing ambivalence in every moment of the film, like in Merezhkovsky's novels, where good and evil are so mixed up with each other that you begin to understand they are just sides of the same coin. And this depth is right up to the very last frame, literally.

Generally invited in the shadow of the epidemic changing standards and criteria in society, the film did not participate in anything except the concept of imbalance.

So I think the parallelism of the societal imbalance with the imbalance of some events in the film is justified.

There is light comedy and from there it moves to dark drama to remind people of the events of Covid and what happened in the minds while taking into account the time period. This is all that is good.

Cons: The ending isn't perfect. Some of the character motivations and transformation were rushed.

-Slow paced and small world I love this atmosphere.

Watched this film on TV, Streaming. Cast was ok but nothing sharp or flashy. 1 annoying point is like so many other 2020s films, WAY to dark, sets interiors not lit. Why is this common? Monk was a decent character but not able maintain interest. The WW1 plague plot line & 1918 location looked well crafted but the scenes did not pull me in. I did enjoy some of the acting, comedy scenes for what they offered. Instead of a dark comedy, this movie should of worked as a mystery or maybe a thriller, horror film format. The large estate locale would add a element of tension, suspense, mysteries I would think.