‘The Laundromat’s Meryl Streep Says Panama Papers Dark Comedy Tells “A Black-Hearted Joke Played On All Of Us” – Venice

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Steven Soderbergh, Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman took to the dais this afternoon at the Venice Film Festival to talk with the press about The Laundromat. The film is a dark comedy that centers on th…

. The film is a dark comedy that centers on the uncovering of the Panama Papers. Streep is a widow who investigates an insurance fraud which leads to Panama City law partners, Mossack & Fonseca, who are exploiting the world’s financial system by creating hundreds of thousands of shell companies to help the wealthy avoid paying taxes. Thetitle is presented in a sort of anthology form that’s linked throughout by Oldman’s Jürgen Mossack and his partner Ramón Fonseca .

Still, the seriousness of the subject matter is not lost on anyone involved in the film. Said Streep, “This movie is fun and it’s funny, but it’s really, really, really important… We’re living in a moment when the news cycle is racing and we are racing to keep up with current events. This is a funny way to tell a black-hearted joke, a joke that’s been played on all of us. It is a crime not without victims and the victims, many of them are journalists.

, drove home a line from the film. “People think that a tax haven is a place that’s warm and sunny and has palm trees,” said Bernstein. “But one of the biggest tax havens in the world is America. Delaware is a factory for anonymous shell companies, something they fight zealously to protect. All kinds of malefactors are using Delaware companies to do terrible things.”. “When you’ve got something this serious you want to get that out to as many people.

 

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