2023 · crime · comedy · drama
The Delinquents
Directed by Rodrigo Moreno3h 10m2023
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.
Our read: The Delinquents (2023) reads as a neutral, measured, inventive crime · comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, measured crime / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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