Why director Andreas Fontana's “Azor,” about the complicity of high finance in Argentina's 'dirty war,' is such a potent banking movie.
Andreas Fontana’s moody political thriller ‘Azor’ mines the murky world of finance during a junta in Argentina.American viewers will find that “Azor” — the first feature-length film by Swiss director Andreas Fontana, now streaming on Mubi — is a minimalist departure from U.S. movies about high finance, which can’t help but explain themselves, usually loudly.
More recent Hollywood treatments of the finance world have become didactic to the point of agitprop, coinciding with a realignment of American politics in which Republicans have gotten more trade-protectionist and young people more socialist. To help dramatize the planet’s absurdly complex 2008 financial crisis for his 2015 film “The Big Short,” Adam McKay cast Margot Robbie to sit in a bubble bath, sip Champagne andto explain mortgage-backed securities directly to viewers.
The film’s main character, De Wiel, played by actor Fabrizio Rongione, has inherited a bank and a large house in Geneva from his father, but De Wiel seems to lack the charm, the awareness and the cunning of his missing partner Keys, who disappeared shortly after investigating a prospective client nicknamed “Lázaro.” While the bank is De Wiel’s patrimony, it’s his wife, Inès , who’s the real brains of the operation.
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