With a varied iconography working as a stimulating dialogue, the director portraits the life of a conman. The set of animated pieces illustrates his vices and troubles as cards, women, applause, decline and ascension follow on. Music and distant sounds, of people and places lost somewhere in 1963, ignite the experience. In an offish bar we listen to conversations, billiard balls colliding and a lonesome piano. The collage of stimulus immerses us, agitates us, soothes us and it is our breath that slows down as the films’ rhythm slackens and we gain space to think about what we just absorbed. A voice whispers you lost something, the most precious thing that children possess and in between destructions, life is gambled, consumed, money gained and money lost. (Ágata Pinho)
