1987. An Olympic gold medal winner with his brother Dave, Mark Schultz, 27, continues to train for the Olympics in Seoul. Introverted and sensitive, Mark is contacted by John du Pont, a billionaire looking to acquire Mark and his team to train them on his property. Now separated from his brother and in search of a new father figure, he soon realizes that his mentor is a tortured man with an unpredictable side…

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Winner for best director at the Cannes Film Festival, Foxcatcher is like an alternative version of the excellent Moneyball, the second movie by Bennett Miller: the story of a sport and a coach inspired by real events with performances calibrated to win an Oscar. But the comparison doesn’t go beyond that formula. The easy narrative and optimism of Moneyball, co-written by the brilliant Aaron Sorkin, is replaced in Foxcatcher by a glacially paced, stifling and quiet drama, which is less spectacular but darker. At the center of these three ordinary antiheroes, Channing Tatum shines in his first performance as a mature, strong and subtle actor. Co-starring with him is Steve Carell, enhanced by a false nose and a frightening face, and well on his way to a Best Supporting Actor Oscar thanks to a performance that takes kitsch to the limit.