Horse Money (2014) Cavalo Dinheiro
Horse Money (2014)
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Genre: Art-House, Drama | Director: Pedro Costa
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Genre: Art-House, Drama | Director: Pedro Costa
"The time is now, a numbing and timeless present of hospital stays, bureaucratic questioning, and wandering through remembered spaces… and suddenly it is also then, the mid '70s and the time of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when Ventura got into a knife fight with his friend Joaquim." This is the synopsis from the press notes. The film is a sequel of sorts to Costa's "Colossal Youth" with Ventura again playing himself.
IMDB - 22 wins
Horse Money demonstrates the perfection in Costa's abilities as a filmmaker along with furthering his dissection into the marginalized lives of Lisbon. Like Costa's previous entries in his Fontainhas series, Horse money is rigidly constructed, hypnotically acted, beautifully photographed, and elliptically elusive. It's main evolution seems to be the complete disregard for time and space as it drifts between the past and present, are own world and another with ease.
Horse Money isn't a film that's meant to be glimpsed casually. The act of watching it isn't a pleasurable experience so much as a hypnotic one. This isn't a film that is necessarily for everyone (in fact the best way to fully grasp its full sprawling grandeur would be to catch up on the three other Fontainhas films) and many will be put off by its deliberate aloofness and a lack of of insight into its cultural contexts. But it's hypnotic nature and masterful construction are undeniable, and it's worth seeking out even if you find yourself perplexed to ad nauseam.
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Horse Money (2014) Cavalo Dinheiro
