The Delinquents (2023)
(Los delincuentes)
Country: ARG/LUX/BRA/CHIL
Technical: col 189m
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Cast: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Germán De Silva
Synopsis:
A bank employee devises a scheme to steal an advance on his unworked years, and coerces a colleague into sitting on the money while he serves his prison sentence. Meanwhile, the place where he spends his last days of freedom proves to have a profound effect on both men.
Review:
While the film does not in any way endorse the main character's lunatic scheme (or explain how it is possible, for that matter), nor does it take up a moral position. Instead it seems to be saying that only when the men break out of their straitjacketed roles do they learn to embrace what life has to offer. In some ways a classic noir setup, leading to the question, 'The money or the girl?', it culminates in the voguishly non-committal response: 'Neither'. Whether or not you excuse this, given the film's deliberate pace, will depend on your appreciation of the film-making (clever compositions, lap dissolves and sliding transitions, soundtrack j-cuts) and the playful touches such as the anagrammatic character names and evocative music cues.
(Los delincuentes)
Country: ARG/LUX/BRA/CHIL
Technical: col 189m
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Cast: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Germán De Silva
Synopsis:
A bank employee devises a scheme to steal an advance on his unworked years, and coerces a colleague into sitting on the money while he serves his prison sentence. Meanwhile, the place where he spends his last days of freedom proves to have a profound effect on both men.
Review:
While the film does not in any way endorse the main character's lunatic scheme (or explain how it is possible, for that matter), nor does it take up a moral position. Instead it seems to be saying that only when the men break out of their straitjacketed roles do they learn to embrace what life has to offer. In some ways a classic noir setup, leading to the question, 'The money or the girl?', it culminates in the voguishly non-committal response: 'Neither'. Whether or not you excuse this, given the film's deliberate pace, will depend on your appreciation of the film-making (clever compositions, lap dissolves and sliding transitions, soundtrack j-cuts) and the playful touches such as the anagrammatic character names and evocative music cues.
(Los delincuentes)
Country: ARG/LUX/BRA/CHIL
Technical: col 189m
Director: Rodrigo Moreno
Cast: Daniel Elías, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino, Germán De Silva
Synopsis:
A bank employee devises a scheme to steal an advance on his unworked years, and coerces a colleague into sitting on the money while he serves his prison sentence. Meanwhile, the place where he spends his last days of freedom proves to have a profound effect on both men.
Review:
While the film does not in any way endorse the main character's lunatic scheme (or explain how it is possible, for that matter), nor does it take up a moral position. Instead it seems to be saying that only when the men break out of their straitjacketed roles do they learn to embrace what life has to offer. In some ways a classic noir setup, leading to the question, 'The money or the girl?', it culminates in the voguishly non-committal response: 'Neither'. Whether or not you excuse this, given the film's deliberate pace, will depend on your appreciation of the film-making (clever compositions, lap dissolves and sliding transitions, soundtrack j-cuts) and the playful touches such as the anagrammatic character names and evocative music cues.