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The story of two brothers-in-law who have a small furniture business. The elder gets seduced by fast international capital and for soon earns piles of cash, while the other rejects the offer and tries to keep the humble shop going. This is a critique of international capitalism which was then in its infancy. Japanese businessmen walk through the shop. We hear a brief lecture by an American (in English) about how free markets make free people. The elder partner revolutionizes his lifestyle. (An interesting sidelight is the use that director Ayala makes of modern Argentine abstract art by Rogelio Polesello, Enio Iommi, Gregorio Vardánega and others as a backdrop for high finance schemes.) The events are set in 1978, when Argentina won the World Cup and people often said "God must be Argentine." The film thoughtfully analyzes that proposition, at least as far as it involves business culture. For an American audience it drags a bit, but it's a brave movie, very much in the critical tradition of Fernando Ayala. Worth seeing.

Nice movie. Nice acting. Just a story about two mid class workers facing one of the worst economic crisis. One of them (Federico Luppi) is seduced by an incredible propose of work by one friend of him (Gianni Lunadei), named Arteche. Arteche offer a very good position on his own company, because he needs someone "he can trust". The other worker (Julio De Grazia) didn't believe on Arteche´s words so he try to "survive" alone. The story is not a real one, but it could be. It´s a good picture about Argentina on the first 80's. Helps to be more careful about "easy money"...

A film which aside from any technical film making aspects, offers great acting and direction. Most important of all though, imagine how useful it would have been for all of those investors handing money over to Bernie Madoff almost 3 decades later to have the benefit of watching this film in advance. It may have made them a bit more wary of promises of "consistent financial returns". An almost prophetic film in its substance and at its core, Luppi gets embroiled in the exact same thing millions got embroiled in during the years prior to the 2008 crash, nothing changed. This lesson came from a country which has kept going over this story in real life over and over during the last 100 years, so its people are well used to it. A masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.

A film which aside from any technical film making aspects, offers great acting and direction. Most important of all though, imagine how useful it would have been for all of those investors handing money over to Bernie Madoff almost 3 decades later to have the benefit of watching this film in advance. It may have made them a bit more weary of promises of "consitent financial returns". An almost prophetic film in its substance an at its core, Luppi gets embroiled in the exact same thing millions got embroiled in during the years prior to the 2008 crash, nothing changed. This lesson came from a country which has kept going over this story in real life over and over during the last 100 years, so its people are well used to it. A masterpiece as far as I'm concerned.