"This was the moment when capitalism became God", James Gray on Paper Tiger

The outspoken American director James Gray is in Cannes with his new film Paper Tiger, a crime drama about two brothers (Adam Driver and Miles Teller) who cross paths with the Russian mafia in New York in the late 1980s. At the press conference, Gray explained why he set the film in 1986, during the collapse of the Soviet Union: “This was the moment when capitalism became God.” More Cinema at https://www.cinema.nl