MUBI Announce Andreas Fontana’s AZOR Home Release

When this film was released earlier this year in cinemas, it received fantastic reviews, but it appeared from nowhere. MUBI have announced Andreas Fontana’s critically acclaimed and remarkably assured debut Azor will be available on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK and Ireland from next month.

The film invites us into the alluring world of the ultra-wealthy in 1980s Argentina. With the country in the clutches of a military dictatorship, violence is always simmering just under the surface. Atmospheric and slyly seductive, this sophisticated political thriller teems with exquisite scenery and ominous conversation.

Flying in from Geneva , private banker Yvan (Fabrizio Rongione) with his wife Ines (Stéphanie Cléau)  arriver in Buenos Aires. Set to replace a colleague who mysteriously disappeared  finding himself untangling a sinister web of colonialism, high finance, and a nation’s “Dirty War”.

Set in Buenos Aires, the film follows private banker Yvan (Fabrizio Rongione, Two Days, One Night) as he arrives from Geneva with his wife Ines (Stéphanie Cléau) to replace a mysteriously missing colleague and placate their moneyed clientele. Moving through the smoke-filled lounges and lush gardens of a society under intense surveillance, he finds himself untangling a sinister web of colonialism, high finance, and a nation’s “Dirty War”.

A highlight from this year’s Berlinale and New Directors/New Films, Azor evocatively depicts the uneasy interplay between wealth and power. Written in collaboration with Argentinian filmmaker Mariano Llinás (La Flor), this is a riveting look at international intrigue worthy of John le Carré or Graham Greene.

Extras: Q&A with Director Andreas Fontana and Matías Piñeiro

The film  also stars Fabrizio Rongione, Stéphanie Cléau, Elli Medeiros, and Alexandre Trocki. Azor will be released in the UK and Ireland on Blu-Ray and DVD from 31st January 2022, or watch now on MUBI.