Tulip Fever: a historical look at bubbles or a horrible period drama? We haven’t seen a good finance movie out — especially one on financial bubbles — since The Big Short. So we were excited to hear of the release of Tulip Fever, which is set in Amsterdam at the height of “Tulip-mania” in the seventeenth century — one of the world’s first documented bubbles, and one in which possession of a single tulip bulb could get you house. Unlike The Big Short, the film leans more towards the artistic side of things. It juxtaposes the financial mania with a love story that sees the protagonists hoping to escape together by investing in tulips. The movie attempts to draw comparison between the “irrational exuberance” during a bubble and that of love, writes Bloomberg Businessweek’s Joe Weisenthal. We’re willing to set aside the scathing critical reviews (the film holds a measly 10% on Rotten Tomatoes) in the hopes that the movie may skew more towards the finance side and less on the romantic. We’ll let you know how it goes when we see it (watch trailer, runtime: 2:14).