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Film · 2023
The Delinquents
Los delincuentesDisillusioned with their monotonous Buenos Aires routine, a bank clerk steals an exact sum to cover their retirement and convinces his coworker to hide the cash while he serves a prison sentence. When the accomplice travels to the countryside to safeguard the loot, an unexpected romance and a taste of freedom upend their plans.
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The Delinquents has been classified as heist cinema, and indeed it tells of a man who robs a bank to escape the capitalist system and turns another man into his accomplice. Yet it is a film that constantly reinvents itself and shuns predictable routes, embodying the rebellious spirit of its characters on both a formal and dramatic level.
Nando Salvá on Cinemanía The Delinquents is a film that mines signifiers and cracks them open, placing money at the center and guide, only to discard it in flight toward beauties that nothing can buy. It is a film where a poetic autonomy incubates in service of questioning the very idea of freedom. A political gesture of the highest order, yesterday, tomorrow, and especially in this moment as it enters the arena.
Tomás Guarnaccia on Con los ojos abiertos Very few films make you ask “what just happened?” at the end – and also in fact “what is happening right now?” at various points during the running time. But this is what I said, out loud, in the course of this deeply strange, utterly distinctive, beguiling and fantastical shaggy-dog story about a bank robbery in Buenos Aires, from Argentinian director Rodrigo Moreno.
Peter Bradshaw on The Guardian
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