Film
The Young Karl Marx
- Director
- Raoul Peck
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 118 mins
Described by one critic as a “communist bromance”, Haitian filmmaker (and former Minister of Culture) Raoul Peck’s follow-up to I Am Not Your Negro is a well-upholstered biopic that should appeal equally to old lefties and costume drama enthusiasts.
The story has 26-year-old Marx (August Diehl) and Mrs Marx (Vicky Krieps, who squared up so effectively to Daniel Day-Lewis in The Phantom Thread) hooking up with Friedrich Engels (Stefan Konarske) in 1844 Paris. No proles themselves, the duo proceed to squabble over the contents of what was to become The Communist Manifesto. More than a few critics have observed that this is all remarkably safe and conventional for a film about radical thinkers.
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