BIG READ: When a billionaire buys your island how do the residents feel?

Henry Jolicoeur is a retired French Canadian hypnotherapist and a glass-products importer who enjoys making very low-budget documentary films

In the summer of 2012, Jolicoeur read that Larry Ellison, a founder of the Silicon Valley giant Oracle and the fifth-richest man in the world, had bought 97% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai — not a 97% stake in some kind of company, but 97% of the physical place. Jolicoeur was curious, so he booked a flight and packed his camera.