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HORSE MONEY
CAVALHO DINHEIRO
Portugal | 2014 | 104 min
The return of Ventura, the man who in Juventude em marcha would wander among the remains of the Fontainhas neighbourhood. As often happens with Pedro Costa’s characters, Ventura returns because the cinema of the Portuguese film director is increasingly about time intended as a wound, as a disease that affects the bodies, those that accompany the time of cinema, film after film. This is the case with Ventura, who emerges from a nondescript space and finds himself in a mental hospital. It is here that a journey made of stories and visions begins, with images from the past and ghosts that keep on coming back. What does Ventura perceive? His own present time in the aseptic psychiatric institute or the past, the carnation revolution, the violence of that period? And what’s the difference between that violence and the cold questioning conducted by the doctor offscreen? What remains is that which is more significant: the face and body of Ventura who gets older film after film, carrying the merciless mark of time. (d.d.)