2014NR

Horse Money

Name: Horse Money
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-12-04
Rating: 7.2

Drama1h 45m

🍅83%

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83%

Tomatometer

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51%

Popcornmeter

7.2

TMDB

Storyline

While the young captains lead the revolution in the streets, the people of Fontainhas search for Ventura, lost in the woods.

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Details

DirectorPedro Costa

ReleasedDec 4, 2014

StatusReleased

Original languagePortuguese

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNRUS

Studio

OPTEC Filmes

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

6 fresh · 1 rotten

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.”

83% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Tara Brady

RTIrish TimesMar 2, 2016

This Portugese oddity represents arthouse film-making taken to insanely inscrutable heights.

Michael Phillips

RTChicago TribuneJan 14, 2016

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.

Mark Kermode

RTObserver (UK)Sep 20, 2015

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.

Fernando E. Juan Lima

RTOtroscines.comDec 29, 2023

... The sepia color palette leaves little room for hope. [Full review in Spanish]