6.1
“Steal back your life.”
The Delinquents (2023)
October 16, 20233h 10mES
6.4
96 votes
Overview
Morán works as a clerk in a bank in Buenos Aires. He is as good as invisible to his colleagues. Over dinner with his colleague Román, Morán tells him that he stole exactly $650,000, which is exactly double what he would have made until his retirement. He plans to turn himself in, but not before offering Román to split the money if agrees to hide it for the duration of his incarceration.
Director
Rodrigo MorenoWriter
Where to Watch
Streaming availability for India
Stream
Rent
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Budget
N/A
Revenue
$51K
Production Companies
Wanka CineRizoma FilmsJaque ContentCompañia AmateurSancho & PuntaJirafa
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6.0"Morán" (Daniel Elías) concludes that his dreary drudge at the bank over the next 25 years is only going to earn him $325k so rather than slug it out, he decides to pinch double that then ask his unwitting colleague "Román" (Esteban Bigliardi) to hide the cash whilst he does his prison sentence. That way, they can both enjoy a pleasant early retirement. The theft all goes remarkably easily and before he turns himself in, our thief goes for a bit of a road trip then goes to the police to confess all and receive the anticipated jail term. After a bit of a rocky start, and the transfer of some "p…
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9.0(long, maybe spoilers) What does freedom cost when you're trapped in the concrete jungle of late capitalism, shuffling papers in a bank while others profit from your labor? Rodrigo Moreno's Los Delincuentes poses this question through what appears to be a heist film, though calling it that is like calling 2001: A Space Odyssey a movie about astronauts. This is a meditation disguised as a crime story, a philosophical inquiry wrapped in the trappings of genre, and ultimately, something far stranger and more radical: a daydream about escape that may never actually happen at all. The film is p…
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