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Vies brûlées

Original title: Plata quemada
  • 2000
  • 12
  • 2h 5m
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
7.1K
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Vies brûlées (2000)
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True CrimeCrimeDramaRomanceThriller

Nene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.Nene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.Nene & Angel and their accomplice Cuervo participate in a botched bank robbery in 1965 Buenos Aires, then hide out from the police in Uruguay while the gang breaks down.

  • Director
    • Marcelo Piñeyro
  • Writers
    • Marcelo Figueras
    • Ricardo Piglia
    • Marcelo Piñeyro
  • Stars
    • Eduardo Noriega
    • Leonardo Sbaraglia
    • Pablo Echarri
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Marcelo Piñeyro
    • Writers
      • Marcelo Figueras
      • Ricardo Piglia
      • Marcelo Piñeyro
    • Stars
      • Eduardo Noriega
      • Leonardo Sbaraglia
      • Pablo Echarri
    • 48User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
    • 68Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 8 nominations total

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    Eduardo Noriega
    Eduardo Noriega
    • Ángel…
    Leonardo Sbaraglia
    Leonardo Sbaraglia
    • El Nene
    Pablo Echarri
    Pablo Echarri
    • El Cuervo
    Leticia Brédice
    Leticia Brédice
    • Giselle
    Ricardo Bartis
    • Fontana
    Dolores Fonzi
    Dolores Fonzi
    • Vivi
    Carlos Roffé
    • Nando
    Daniel Valenzuela
    Daniel Valenzuela
    • Tabaré
    Héctor Alterio
    Héctor Alterio
    • Losardo
    Claudio Rissi
    Claudio Rissi
    • Relator
    Luis Ziembrowski
    Luis Ziembrowski
    • Florian Barrios
    Harry Havilio
    • Carlos Tulian
    Roberto Vallejos
    • Parisi
    Adriana Varela
    • Cantante Cabaret
    Ángel Alves
    • Prostituta 3 Parque de Diversiones
    Juan Barrueco
    • Guitarrista Cabaret
    Walter Berrutti
    • Chófer (Losardo)
    César Bringas
    • Policía 1 Palier
    • Director
      • Marcelo Piñeyro
    • Writers
      • Marcelo Figueras
      • Ricardo Piglia
      • Marcelo Piñeyro
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    User reviews48

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    alcyone6

    Burnt Lives

    Argentina, 1965. A heist goes wrong. Three men are on the run looking for a place to hide. They find it in Montevideo, they need false passports to leave so they wait day after day until the police come and everything goes apocalyptic.

    The bare facts.

    But the real movie is about the two killers in the gang, El Nene and Angel, called Los Mellizos (the twins). They are not related. They are lovers: two fugitives sharing loneliness and pain, living their lives on the edge. It's the story of a doomed relationship, confined into four rooms where intense passion and violence push the extremes.

    In their hostile world of drugs, cheap sex, prejudice and revenge they have to deal with a feeling born from repression and the fear of naming it. There is, above all, their desperate search for love and loyalty that makes them some kind of tragic heroes in the end.

    Seldom has cinema faced the subject of masculine desire and affection in such a natural, honest and even tender way. For sure a different sight of an action movie and a remarkable piece of acting.

    Worth seeing.
    9Libretio

    Explosive thriller burns up the screen!

    BURNT MONEY (Plata Quemada)

    Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

    Sound format: Dolby Digital

    Argentina, 1965: Following a violent robbery on an armored car, two gay lovers - rebellious rich kid Nene (Leonardo Sbaraglia) and borderline schizophrenic Ángel (Eduardo Noriega) - are forced to flee with their accomplices to Uruguay, where they take refuge in a decaying apartment building. Denied sexual favors by Ángel due to his worsening mental condition, Nene takes up with a sympathetic prostitute (Leticia Brédice), leading to jealousy, betrayal and tragedy...

    Based on true events recounted in a non-fiction novel by Argentinian writer/critic Ricardo Piglia, and directed by former producer Marcelo Piñeyro (THE OFFICIAL STORY), BURNT MONEY is a masterpiece. Photographed with noirish intensity by Alfredo Mayo (HIGH HEELS) and underscored by an ironic soundtrack of lazy jazz and contemporary English/Spanish pop songs, the narrative is driven by powerful emotions which explode at regular intervals in outpourings of explicit sex and violence. The sacred and profane are interlinked in various ways (one extraordinary sequence cross-cuts between an act of worship in a Uruguayan church and an unpleasant encounter between Nene and a frightened youth in a public toilet), and the sweaty atmosphere is broken only by an explosive climax where the main protagonists are forced to take responsibility for their actions. Former TV actor Pablo Echarri ("Chiquititas", "El Signo", etc.) plays a younger, headstrong member of the outlaw gang, blinded by youthful arrogance to the danger in which they have all become enmeshed, while Brédice (NINE QUEENS) plays one of the few significant female characters in this otherwise all-male scenario, a brittle creature who falls in love with the wrong guy, with appalling consequences for everyone around her.

    More than anything else, however, BURNT MONEY is a love story, played to perfection by two of the finest young actors of their generation. Spanish heartthrob Noriega forged his career in popular mainstream entries such as THESIS, OPEN YOUR EYES and THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, while Sbaraglia plied his trade alongside Piñeyro in the lower echelons of Argentinian cinema (TANGO FEROZ: LA LEYENDA DE TANGUITO, CABALLOS SALVAJES). Casting these two beautiful, experienced young men as lovers in a violent true-crime drama could not have been more fortuitous: Their devotions are rarely consummated on-screen (all of the aforementioned sex scenes are heterosexual), except for a chaste kiss at the end of the film, and an earlier, erotically-charged sequence in which Nene tends to a wound on Ángel's shoulder and initiates a sexual advance, only to be rebuffed because of Ángel's mental condition. And yet, Noriega and Sbaraglia are ultra-convincing as the macho thugs who would literally die for one another, and they invest every gesture, every inflection, with genuine romantic chemistry. These guys simply burn up the screen! Look out for the devastating sequence in which Nene 'confesses' to Brédice about his relationship with Ángel, where he describes their mutual affection with heartbreaking emotional candor.

    To his credit, Piñeyro refuses to soft-pedal the dissolute nature of his central characters. But for all its dramatic fireworks and sexual tension, BURNT MONEY is a tale of steadfast devotion, as touching and beautiful as any this reviewer has ever seen. They may be thieves and murderers, but when Nene looks into Ángel's eyes, you know instinctively that their love transcends life and death, and is destined to last an eternity. Not just a great gay film, BURNT MONEY is also a terrific love story, a heartstopping thriller, and an outstanding example of popular Spanish entertainment.

    (Spanish dialogue)
    10jotix100

    Angel and Nene

    Marcelo Pineyro, one of the best directors from Argentina, surprises with every new effort. Working on this film with Marcelo Figueras, he also contributed to bring Ricardo Piglia's novel to the screen with unexpected results. The novel was based on a real criminal case that happened in Buenos Aires in the 1960's.

    The two men at the center of the story are gay lovers who happened to be criminals. These two men share a passion that comes across on the screen like no other in recent memory. Angel, the Spaniard, wants to go to New York and Nene, his lover, wants to comply, but first they must attend to the assault of a vehicle that brings money to one bank. During the heist Angel is shot on his shoulder.

    Things are so hot for all the people involved, they flee to Uruguay. This was perhaps a miscalculation, because they are being followed by the Argentine police, that is working with local authorities in apprehending all the criminals.

    Nene is restless. He decides to leave the safe house, and finds Giselle, a beautiful woman who falls in love with him. At this point, we are of two minds, is Nene really cheating on Angel, or is he trying to use Giselle into providing another place where they can hide? The violent end comes in a finale that doesn't have anything to envy to any other movies of the genre.

    The best thing in the film are the two leads. Leonardo Sbaraglia is one of the best actors that have come out of Argentina lately. He does an amazing job in portraying Nene. Eduardo Noriega, is also a Spanish actor that has done excellent work before and he shows his range in a magnificent performance as Angel. Leticia Bredice is Giselle, the young woman in Montevideo who befriends, then fall in love with Nene.

    The film proves Marcelo Pineyro is a voice to be reckoned with and who has an enormous talent for giving his audience his best.
    9ricbigi

    A poetic masterpiece

    I cannot forget the images that Marcelo Piñeyro conjured up and was able to capture in this film. Everything, the visuals, the literate script, with its sensitive, sensuous, heartbreaking dialogue, the suspense that does not leave you for a single minute, the violent finale that you expect and still keep hoping it will not happen, the exquisite acting of all the major players, it will all stay with me, forever, I am sure. This is film-making of the best kind: contemporary, mature, it relates to reality but transcends it and reaches a perfectly beautiful, artistic, poetic level. This is also a film that treats a gay relationship with total honesty and truth. The characters have their faults, but none of them has to do with their sexuality. They make, indeed, a beautiful pair, and I wish they would have had a chance to be happy together, somewhere, somehow, at the end.
    dburge276

    Clever use of diagetic sound and long takes creates real suspense

    Burnt Money is an exceptional film in the crime drama genre and stands quite well as director Marcelo Pineyero provides Hollywood with an example of what subtlety can bring to cinema. This film also does its best as a commentary of the internal division between the people and the corrupt government in Argentina, as showcased by the character Nando, played by Carlos Roffe. A few scenes strike out at me for recounting the director's work and it also must be said that the work of the actors that portrayed Nene, Angel and Cuervo was thoughtful and delivered with subtlety to match that of the director's nuanced vision of the world that the trio inhabits.

    Two scenes that immediately jump to mind are those that weave both dramatic long takes with clever use of diagetic sound to create a suspenseful dramatic scene. The two scenes are of the moment that Vivi is captured by the police and the 'relaxing' scene at the beach party with the trio. I enjoyed both of these scenes very much due to the director's courage to use a long take to add suspense. The suspense in these scenes however is not the same as the violent and gore soaked films we call 'suspense', but a more chilling and ominous sense of dread is evoked with the stillness of each scene. There is a moment that both scenes erupt with action, and the music within each scene accentuates the moment that the juxtaposition of mood occurs. Basically the manipulation of music within the scene such as the record being torn off the player just as the party erupts show that the director made disciplined use of all the tools in his arsenal to create a fully imagined atmosphere and mood.

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    • Trivia
      Dolores Fonzi's debut.
    • Goofs
      In the robbery scene, when Nene takes the cash box from the dead clerk, the corpse of the clerk is still breathing, as his beer belly is heaving.
    • Connections
      Referenced in California Secreta: El lobo de Wall St./Dolores Fonzi (2024)
    • Soundtracks
      Vida mía
      Composed by E. Fresedo and Osvaldo Fresedo (as O. Fresedo)

      Performed by Adriana Varela

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    • Release date
      • February 14, 2001 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • Argentina
      • Spain
      • Uruguay
    • Official site
      • Director's Official Site
    • Language
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Burnt Money
    • Filming locations
      • Montevideo, Uruguay
    • Production companies
      • Oscar Kramer S.A.
      • Cuatro Cabezas
      • Estudios Darwin
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $183,132
    • Gross worldwide
      • $190,075
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 5m(125 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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