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04/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Andreas Fontana offers a captivating first feature following in the wake of a Swiss banker who is plunged into a labyrinthine mission navigating society’s noxious upper echelons

‘Azor’ Film Review: A Private Swiss Banker Enters the Argentine Junta’s Heart of Darkness Variety 3/12/2021 The first thing one notices about “Azor” is how real it feels: the entitlement, the encyclopedic knowledge of “good” families, the multilingual fluency, the bonhomie of power. The main characters are a Swiss private banker and his wife, and it comes as no surprise to learn that director Andreas Fontana is himself the grandson of a Swiss private banker – he knows this mil...

Stéphanie Cléau, Ioana Padilla, Carmen Iriondo, Fabrizio Rongione and Raúl Lissarrague in Azor "It’s impossible to work out what’s going on in this country". It’s December 1980 and the streets of Buenos Aires are under surveillance by the military authorities. 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 part...