Apolline Locquet 4ECOFI3 {draw:frame} Capitalism: a Love Story is the latest film made by Michael Moore, released in US theaters in November 2009. 20 years after his first documentary, Roger and Me, Michael Moore gets back in touch with the beloved theme of capitalism. Centering his movie on the issue of the financial crisis the world has been facing for a couple of years and the current economic order of the US, he addresses many questions such as Wall Street’s malfunction, low-level wages, unemployment and the overlap between economical and political interests. By making a really harsh criticism of capitalism, Michael Moore uses the same techniques as he used in most of his previous documentaries and eventually depicts a scathing report on the subject analyzed. In order to make an accurate film review of Capitalism: a Love Story, we will first approach the film from a general point of view to understand Moore’s approach of capitalism and US economic order. Then, we will review Moore’s criticism by analyzing his technique in which he draws upon embarrassing examples and accuses people. We will eventually make a critical review of the documentary. The meaning of the documentary’s title is obvious since the very beginning. By using his own image as a little boy, Moore describes us the magnificent but failed romance of the US with the so called system of free markets. When he was little a lot of people got rich, the US built hospitals and schools by hundreds - they even sent a man to the moon – and at the time people had sufficient pensions and healthcare. For Moore, “it sounded like a good deal”. Then, some people made bad choices (Ronald Reagan is here pointed at), and then inescapably came disastrous consequences. It almost sounds like the synopsis of one of those B-movies Ronald Reagan could have played in. Moore also explores other definitions: one describes capitalism as the system of free market in which profit is the motto. He also quotes