The Belcourt Theatre does not provide advisories about subject matter or potential triggering content, as sensitivities vary from person to person.īeyond the synopses, trailers and review links on our website, other sources of information about content and age-appropriateness for specific films can be found on Common Sense Media, IMDband as well as through general internet searches. It may be a period piece, but similar stories are playing out around the world today.” - Joe Blessing, The Playlist “Fontana crafts a sense of unease and uncertainty which unfolds amid hushed rooms and oppressive luxury he captures the taint of wealth and privilege in a way which shares a blue-blooded kinship with the work of Lucretia Martel.” - Wendy Ide, Screen Daily “AZOR is an indictment of the Swiss banks that profited from criminal regimes and are still in business, but also of the many smaller compromises the wealthy make with power. Co-written by Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Llinás (LA FLOR), this is a riveting look at international intrigue worthy of John le Carré or Graham Greene. With its deceptively spare, functional mise-en-scene and tamped-down performances, Andreas Fontana’s Dirty War thriller is a superlatively muted debut. Moving through the smoke-filled lounges and lush gardens of a society under intense surveillance, he finds himself untangling a sinister web of colonialism, high finance, and a nation’s Dirty War.Ī highlight from this year’s Berlinale and New Directors/New Films, AZOR evocatively depicts the uneasy interplay between wealth and power. Azor (Andreas Fontana, 2021) Money talks in Azor, but it doesn’t raise its voice. Moving through a society under surveillance, he finds himself untangling a sinister web of colonialism, high finance, and a nation’s Dirty War. Set in Buenos Aires, the film follows private banker Yvan (Fabrizio Rongione) as he arrives from Geneva with his wife Ines (Stéphanie Cléau) to replace a mysteriously missing colleague and placate their moneyed clientele. Azor: Argentina, 1980, the height of Juntas dirty war, Yvan (Fabrizio Rongione) is a private banker from Geneva who travels to the country after his banks representative there, Rene, has disappeared. Private banker Yvan arrives from Geneva to replace a colleague who has mysteriously disappeared in military-ruled Buenos Aires. Atmospheric and slyly seductive, this sophisticated political thriller teems with exquisite scenery and ominous conversation. With the country in the clutches of a military dictatorship, political violence is always simmering just under the surface. Film Kitchen Meetups for High School FilmmakersĪ remarkably assured debut from Swiss director Andreas Fontana, AZOR invites us into the alluring world of the ultra-wealthy in late 1970s Argentina.Synopsis: Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight. Reel Proud: A Film Seminar for LGBTQ+ High School Students Starring Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, and Carmen Iriondo. And ‘neat’ is the perfect word to describe the cinematography and production design of the film, which quietly mirrors the state that the high class desperately attempts to maintain. He was able to make Yvan a character that very much belongs to a luxurious hotel room with his suit on, a character who is quite deft at handling the whims of his wealthy clients, and getting rich while he was at it with just the right amount of self-doubts.Īs the film’s story mostly revolves around Yvan interacting with his rich clients, the audience gets transported to places that are neat and so well-decorated that it would seem right out of a vividly constructed tableau. The kind of conflicted leading heroes we used to see in Golden Age Hollywood, Rongione’s Yvan had that charm about him. Movie Details Source: Original Screenplay Genre: Drama Production Method: Live Action Creative Type: Contemporary Fiction Production Countries: Argentina. 10 Essential Argentinian Films of 2010s Ībout her husband, Yvan is portrayed by Fabrizio Rongione, and Rongione has this old-school Hollywood suave in his portrayal of Ivan.
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