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When Ventura becomes lost in the woods, the people of Fontainhas search for him.
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Critics Consensus

Horse Money continues director Pedro Costa's elegiac explorations of poverty and survival, withholding a clear narrative while delivering an evocative journey with distinctive visuals.

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Tara Brady Irish Times 03/02/2016
3/5
This Portugese oddity represents arthouse film-making taken to insanely inscrutable heights. Go to Full Review Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune 01/14/2016
3/4
The director has plenty of influences, Stanley Kubrick and Old Hollywood classicists such as John Ford among them. But his style is his own: exacting, but dreamlike. Go to Full Review Mark Kermode Observer (UK) 09/20/2015
4/5
Best to let the film's mesmerising tableaux descend upon you in the dreamy darkness, then sift its haunting memories for precise meaning in the hours, days and weeks that follow. Go to Full Review Fernando E. Juan Lima Otroscines.com 12/29/2023
5/5
... The sepia color palette leaves little room for hope. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review Dustin Chang ScreenAnarchy 02/21/2021
...a long, surreal, mesmerizing elevator ride with Ventura and a faceless, scary soldier with a rifle. The nightmarish scene can be interpreted as Costa's therapy session for Ventura, exorcising his past demons that he desperately wants to do without. Go to Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 02/12/2021
Costa's grim, joyless filmmaking is useful at communicating one or two emotions. This is not a film taken from life. The director is too obviously striving to impress. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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05/02/2021 To say this film is heavy with symbolism, imagery is an understatement. Then there's the darkness, shadow, and the gravitas they carry. This is why the visual aspects of cinema will always be the preeminent strength, the essence of film. Then add in Costa's use of dialogue mixed with the singing of folk-type songs that carry such personal, cultural weight. One to revisit, if I can? 3.2 stars See more 09/12/2017 Watching it a second time would be more revealing but it wasn't worth that to me. Any movie you have to watch twice isn't worth it. Some times people make it to artsy fartsy for their own good. See more 09/18/2015 Beautifully composed where every frame is an art still in itself. The script is dreamlike and seemingly directionless but all can be pieced together into a deeper and broader metal picture. Patience required. See more 02/18/2015 Obtuse to the point of obfuscation. Perhaps foreknowledge of the subject matter would help, but on its own the movie has little to offer beyond a few well composed shots and an apparent hostility to those who aren't already "in the know." See more Read all reviews
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Pedro Costa

Director

Tito Furtado

Actor

Vitalina Varela

Actor

Ventura

Self

Pedro Costa

Screenwriter

Leonardo Simões

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Movie Info

Synopsis When Ventura becomes lost in the woods, the people of Fontainhas search for him.
Director
Pedro Costa
Screenwriter
Pedro Costa
Production Co
Sociedade Óptica Técnica
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Brazilian Portuguese
Release Date (Streaming)
May 22, 2016
Runtime
1h 43m
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