Bad guys in banking movies are usually noisy. 'Azor' shows the horrors of silence
In the sly new finance movie "Azor," a Swiss banker named Yvan de Wiel is visiting Argentina in 1980 on business, but the military dictatorship's "dirty war" against its political opponents keeps slithering up around him. In an opening scene, De Wiel watches quietly as soldiers detain two young men on the street. After the camera cuts away and returns, only one young man remains, his partner joining the ranks of Argentina's thousands of desaparecidos. "You don't have to worry," the banker's driver reassures De Wiel; they're in a Swiss Embassy vehicle, shrouded in diplomatic and moral immunity.
A soldier waves the car through, and De Wiel — whose own Swiss partner has also gone inexplicably
