''Horse Money'' ( Portuguese: ''Cavalo Dinheiro'') is a 2014 Portuguese film directed by Pedro Costa. It premiered in August 2014 at the

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, where it won the award for

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. Horse Money is the fourth film in a sequence of films set in the Fontainhas slum region in Lisbon, and the second with character Venturas as the protagonist.

Plot

Ventura, an elderly Cape Verdean immigrant living in Lisbon travels through the night, through real and imagined nightmarish memories.

Release

''Horse Money'' was in competition for the Golden Leopard at the 2014

Critical response

The film received critical acclaim.

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, a film critic for ''

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'', gave the film three and a half out of four stars, stating that "the best approach o ''Horse Money''is to surrender to it as you might a dream and let the images overwhelm you." The international film magazine '' Sight & Sound'' named it the third best film of 2014, behind '' Boyhood'' and ''

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'' while tying with the film '' Leviathan''.

Distribution

* matango.tv (italian distribution)

References

External links

* * * * * Films directed by Pedro Costa Portuguese drama films 2014 films {{Portugal-film-stub