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- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
Directed By: Federico Veiroj
Written By: Arauco Hernández Holz, Martín Mauregui, Federico Veiroj
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
- Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
- 1 h 37 m
The Moneychanger
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Summary Spanning the fifties to the seventies, the film follows Humberto as he gets increasingly in over his head with multiple shady book-cooking schemes throughout South America, leading to an ultimate life-or-death decision.
Directed By: Federico Veiroj
Written By: Arauco Hernández Holz, Martín Mauregui, Federico Veiroj
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
61
80% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
20% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Even if the personal and political don’t always line up neatly in The Moneychanger, it’s an engaging character study of a man with little character, elevated by Veiroj’s unusual eye.
Federico Veiroj’s love of anti-heroes continues with this fifth feature, an enjoyably offbeat period character study wrapped in a thriller and laced with bone-dry humour that charts the rise of a conscience-free money launderer during the 1970s Uruguayan military dictatorship.
The Moneychanger has fun on its road to a predictable ending. You won’t feel cheated, but you might think you overpaid.
It’s apparent that Veiroj disdains no one so much as Humberto, but the film makes vanishingly little of the man’s undoubtedly twisted psyche.
The images, and the actions within them, lack the acerbic edge that would really drive the knife in.
Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Toronto International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
