FILM
MOUNTAINHEAD
JESSE ARMSTRONG’S HIGH-ALTITUDE SUCCESSION FOLLOW-UP
★★★★
OUT NOW (SKY ATLANTIC/NOW) / CERT TBC / 109 MINS
DIRECTOR Jesse Armstrong
CAST Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef, Hadley Robinson
PLOT Four moguls spend a weekend in a mountainside mansion while the world descends into chaos caused by their tech innovations.
AYN RAND’S 1943 novel The Fountainhead, a paean to capitalist self-interest, has become a bible for right-wingers and entrepreneurs from Donald Trump to Steve Jobs. In his latest skewering of the super-rich and his first feature film as a director, Succession’s Jesse Armstrong borrows the title of Rand’s book for a Bond villain-style lair where a group of amoral, mega-powerful tech magnates watch a global crisis unfold, one that they insist they aren’t at all responsible for.