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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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