Horse Money

the decrepit immigrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon that was the setting forhis previous movies. Ventura, the elderly émigré worker from Cape Verde who was the central figure in Colossal Youth, is also the star of this movie. He wanders down corridors and hallways, and through history -- a kind of sleepwalker flanked by friends and phantoms from his own and Portugal's tragic past. The result is a dreamy, hallucinatory tone poem that embraces the underclass, seduces the viewer, but safeguards its secrets.