It’s always hard to make corporate skullduggery and intrigue seem thrilling on screen. The Big Short managed by having the technical explanations delivered by Hollywood A-listers. Succession needed the private lives of the Roys to save it from death by boardroom. It’s no mean feat to make such machinations interesting, even when the story is as twisty as that of former Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn – who was accused of financial impropriety and imprisoned in Japan, before fleeing the country in 2019, despite being under heavy surveillance.
Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn, then, has to find a way through. This four-part documentary tells the story of Ghosn, the cost-cutting, money-making CEO who turned the fortunes of Renault and Nissan around – until he was arrested in Japan in 2018 on suspicion of “underreporting compensation” and “misuse of company assets”, at which point his fall from grace was all but inevitable. It soon becomes clear that this is only one layer of what turns out to be a rich and multifaceted fable.
