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Money Movers
Bruce Beresford
- 1978
- Australia
- Police
- 1h32mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Brand new master
A company of money conveyors, victim of repeated burglaries, applies new security measures. But the danger comes from inside.
Somewhat anonymous in the USA, Bruce Beresford stirred much enthusiasm in his native land, Australia, with this uppercut, Money Movers, a dark noir movie, as tense and meticulous as Lumet’s The Anderson Tapes, and as socially violent as Schrader’s Blue Collar. The filmmaker guts the genre in an almost documentary style, that focuses both on the conveyors’ status and noir suspense. The frontal violence, void of heroics or aestheticization, serves a chilling political message: these miserably paid employees can always believe they’re perfect thieves, they’ll always be losers, serving the mafia-like leaders who pull the strings.
Screenings
13/09 • 14h45 • Screen 100
16/09 • 22h30 • Screen 100
Credits
- With : Terence Donovan, Tony Bonner, Ed Devereaux, Charles «Bud» Tingwell
- Screenplay : Bruce Beresford
- Photography : Don McAlpine
- Music by : Béla Bartók
- Editing : William M. Anderson
- Production : Matt Carroll
