HORSE MONEY

HORSE MONEY

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Code: 5231
A film by Pedro Costa

Disc Specs
2015 / 104 minutes / 1.33:1
Portuguese, Dolby Digital 5.1



    Synopsis

    A visionary masterwork from the renowned director of COLOSSAL YOUTH, Pedro Costa’s HORSE MONEY is a mesmerizing odyssey into the real, imagined and nightmarish memories of the elderly Ventura, a Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon. 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. HORSE MONEY is a self-reckoning, a moving memorialization of lives in danger of being forgotten, as well as a piercingly beautiful work of modern cinema.


    Special Features

    • OUR MAN (2010, 23 minutes), a short film by Pedro Costa
    • Booklet featuring "The Road to Perdition," an essay by film critic Chris Fujiwara



    Film Reviews

    "Mesmerizing. I could go on rhapsodizing about the wonders of Horse Money, which becomes more alluring and impressive with every viewing."
    – Kent Jones, Director of the New York Film Festival, Film Comment

    "Gorgeous. Surrender to it as you might a dream and let the images overwhelm you."
    – Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

    "One of the most important and original directors working today."
    – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

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