![]() ![]() Such is the intriguing point of departure opted for in Azor, the brilliant debut feature film by Swiss director Andreas Fontana, which was unveiled in the 71st Berlinale’s Encounters competition. However, a highly delicate mission awaits our refined Yvan: he must win back the mega-wealthy and tax-evasion-inclined clientele of his predecessor who has fled without explanation. But given that luxury hotels, private clubs, villas with swimming pools, vast estates and private boxes at racetracks are all much of a muchness, and that, in this sense, the privileged folk of the world form one big family partaking in the same elitist culture and speaking one same language, Swiss banker Yvan De Wiel ( Fabrizio Rongione) and his wife Inés ( Stéphanie Cléau), who are visiting the Argentinian capital for the very first time, are far from disoriented. It’s December 1980 and the streets of Buenos Aires are under surveillance by the military authorities. "It’s impossible to work out what’s going on in this country". ![]() Stéphanie Cléau, Ioana Padilla, Carmen Iriondo, Fabrizio Rongione and Raúl Lissarrague in Azor ![]()
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