The movie concerns Yvan De Wiel, a Swiss banker, who’s traveled to Argentina with his wife, Ines, to meet with clients of the private bank, founded by his grandfather, that bears his name. The main difference is that paranoid thrillers are about journalists and detectives uncovering corruption, conspiracy, and wrongdoing halogencore movies are about well-to-do professionals learning to ignore it.Īzor, I think, is a kind of bridge between the two styles. These are movies whose main moods are dread, paranoia, and pessimism, the sense of always being a step behind, of always having arrived a little bit too late, of knowing too much but at the same time not quite enough. Halogencore movies are heirs of the 1970s paranoid-thriller tradition: movies like Three Days of the Condor and The Parallax View, which share with the movies listed above a certain sensibility and affect. The "victory" of a happy ending in a halogencore movie is not that power has been toppled but that our compromised hero has manage to survive inside the machine without being crushed.Īs the name suggests, halogencore movies feature lots of flourescent lighting and nighttime city shots. They are stories of beaten-down people acquiescing to or negotiating compromise with power. They are not stories of lasting change, stunning revelation, or dramatic reversals of fortune. They usually take place over a short time frame - day, or a night, or a weekend - and against a ticking clock. Halogencore movies are stories of corporate intrigue and malfeasance, told from the point of view of characters on the "outside of the inside" - low-level apparatchiks, functionaries, subordinates, and middle managers, navigating crisis from the periphery of real power. I made a list and wrote a little bit about the genre here here’s the one-paragraph definition:
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(Though, if you want to help a guy out, signing up through this link gets both of us a free month.)Ī couple years ago I came up with the dumb name “halogencore” to describe a quasi-genre, or really a set of tropes that characterized a bunch of movies made in the last few years that I’d enjoyed - Michael Clayton, Margin Call, and The Assistant, to name three.
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Mubi has a free trial through its website, so you can sign up and watch it this weekend (and The Fog, too!) and cancel before you get charged, if you’d like. I think it’s probably my favorite movie I saw all year. Andreas Fontanaĭo you like: smart political thrillers? Do you like: movies heavy on atmosphere and light on exposition? Do you like: dramatized depcitions of the global transition from the postwar settlement to the neoliberal era? If you answered “yes” to any two of those three questions, I cannot recommend enough Azor, a quiet mystery-thriller about a Swiss private banker moving among the Argentinian elite in 1980 (which is to say, in the midst of a brutal campaign of political mass killing following a U.S.-supported right-wing military coup), which premiered on the streaming service Mubi this week.
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