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Por el Dinero

For the Money

Argentina 2019
produced by
El Pampero Cine
directed by Alejo Moguillansky
starring Alejo Moguillansky, Luciana Acuna, Matthieu Perpoint, Gabriel Chwojnik, Vladimir Durán
written by Alejo Moguillansky, Luciana Acuna, Walter Jakob, music by Gabriel Chwojnik

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Alejo (Moguillansky) and his wife Luciana (Acuna) are found dead on a Colombian beach, maybe murdered, and all the police have as clues is a couple of footprints of a heavy-set man and a little girl - and a very confused maybe-witness, Matthieu (Perpoint). And eventually Matthieu starts to tell a very odd story: Seems like Alejo was the head of an Argentinian off-theatre troupe that also included his wife, Matthieu and Obelix (Gabriel Chwojnik), in all probability heavy-set man from the footprints. Now the four of them have put on a very anarchistic and bizarre play about money that made them hardly any money back in Argentina, but eventuially they were invited to a theatre festival in Colombia that was actually a paid couple of performances - and brought a TV team with them to afford them the flight. Now at the fest they learn that they're up for an award that might actually make them a nice sum of additional money, but when they learn the whole awards thing is rigged for a local favourite to win, they steal both the money and the award for themselves - unfortunately before their last performance, so they're found out while on stage and ultimately make a run for it right off the stage - and their escape leaves them, and Luciana's little daughter, stranded on an island, and only after days they find out they're not actually on an island but not far from a road - and thus vulnerable to prosecution - which is why they decide to split up, which somehow leads to tragedy ...

 

Por el Dinero is a rather unusual film, it's pretty much as anarchic as its story - as in, it doesn't follow a strict structure and has an hodgepodge approach to it -, it was pretty much unscripted and made up during the shoot, and it finds joy in mixing truth and fiction (it was actually initially intended as a documentary) and in part is autobiographical but taking massive crative license. And while this approach isn't everybody's cup of tea for sure, if you're inclined to give it a chance, you'll probably find plenty to laugh in this movie, as it mixes (self-)irony with slapstick with more sophisticated comedy and shows a remarkably light-footed approach to everything (including its lead characters' deaths). That said, it's certainly not your middle-of-the-road comedy, rather a treatise about artists and money (or lack thereof), but made with the necessary humour.

Interesting for sure.

 

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