The Delinquents

A delightfully unconventional heist picture unlike any other, The Delinquents upends genre expectations with a gently comic yet deftly constructed existentialist fable. Timid bank clerk Morán (Daniel Elías), fed up with his dead-end middle-management job, decides one day to simply walk into the vault, pack a bag with enough cash to cover his salary until retirement age, and saunter out. Knowing he has been inevitably caught on security camera, Morán plans on turning himself in, but not before passing the stash along to his coworker Román (Esteban Bigliardi), now an accomplice who agrees to hold onto the money until Morán gets out of prison. From this gripping premise, Argentinean writer/director Rodrigo Moreno takes viewers on an epic, multi-faceted journey where a bank robbery is just the beginning of an endlessly surprising tale that questions, with an appealingly amusing spirt, what it means to be truly free in a world driven by money. (Dir. by Rodrigo Moreno, 2023, Argentina, in Spanish with English subtitles, 183 mins., Not Rated)