Screening times:
Friday, December 8, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Saturday, December 9, 7:00 PM - Half-capacity screening
Rodrigo Moreno | Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Luxembourg | 2023 | 189m | Spanish with English subtitles
with Daniel Elias, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino
Beguiling and unpredictable, The Delinquents reinvents the heist film as a free-flowing adventure like no other.
Buenos Aires bank employee Morán (Daniel Eliás) dreams up a scheme to liberate himself from corporate monotony: he’ll steal enough money to support a modest retirement, then confess and serve prison time while his co-worker holds on to the cash. Soon under pressure by a company investigator, accomplice Román (Esteban Bigliardi) heads to a remote rural idyll to hide the funds. There, he encounters a mysterious woman who will transform his life forever.
The latest from Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno, The Delinquents melds the existential and the playful to explore the nature of freedom itself never less than charming in its laid back approach, the film is totally at odds with its structure as a heist movie. The Delinquents is at turns surreal, relatable, funny, romantic, surprising, restorative and above all a delight.
"Modern society has led us to live lives that we don’t want to live: there are obligations, formal obligations that strip our freedoms," says Rodrigo Moreno, the director. "Now, in days of economic crisis, we depend on obligations more than ever, but we also depend on technology, our existence has become totally dependent. Morán's decision invites us to get rid of this fate."
"From unsettled beginning to wondrously open-hearted finale, The Delinquents is wise enough not to offer clear or easy answers, beyond its certainty that getting lost is the only way to be found." -Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"Part of the sheer joy of watching The Delinquents is not knowing where it’s going next, only to feel that its many tangents and detours were dotted on the path all along." -David Fear, Rolling Stone
Silver Hugo Jury Prize - Chicago International Film Festival
Grand Prix Best Film - Ghent International Film Festival
Tickets $8.75 ($8 cash at the door if available).
Half capacity
Half capacity
