Horse Money
- heavy
- slow-burn
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- signature
Heavy, slow-burn, measured drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.
Our read · Horse Money (2014) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Horse Money
What watching it is actually like.
“You want dreamlike slow cinema of memory, immigration and purgatory.”
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The reading.
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