The Cannes Film Festival can be daunting. Sure, there are always 25-plus titles you know, but dozens of titles you’ve never heard of and don’t know if they’re worth seeing or covering. Well, the sales reps at Magnolia Pictures International know how to drum up some hype and have done so with the first trailer for “The Delinquents,” from Argentinian writer-director Rodrigo Moreno (“The Custodian”). A heist film/bank-robbing comedy, the film will world premiere as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the upcoming 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
The film’s logline is involved, but in short, two bank workers looking for freedom from their tedious jobs commit an inside-job robbery at their place of business, but love, guilt, strategic moves to not get caught, and more make it all really complicated.
The film stars Daniel Eliás, Esteban Bigliardi, Margarita Molfino and Mariana Chaud. Producers in the film include Ezequiel Borovinsky, Les Films Fauves, Sancho & Punta, Jirafa Films, Jaque, and Rizoma.
Here’s the short synopsis:
A scheme to break free from the obligations of society is hatched between two bank clerks. After one robs the bank where they work, the other serves as his accessory in concealing the stolen funds. A heist film that probes the maddening divide between work and life.
Here’s the longer synopsis for more context.
Morán (Daniel Eliás) is a bank employee in Buenos Aires who dreams up a risky plan to liberate himself and his co-worker Román (Esteban Bigliardi) from the shackles of working life: Morán will steal enough cash from the bank to fund their retirement if Román hides the money for him after he confesses and serves prison time; in three years’ time, they’ll reunite, split the cash, and never have to work again. Departing to the countryside to fulfill his side of the deal, the less adventurous Román finds himself transformed by Morán’s idyllic vision of economic liberation far from the rigors of urban life. But what is the true cost of freedom? From writer-director Rodrigo Moreno (A Mysterious World) comes an existential probe into the work-life balance and what happens when it’s shattered and replaced with something radical and new. Combining sumptuous imagery and dry humor, Moreno finds universality and complexity in the eternal dilemma of forging our livelihood.
“The Delinquents” makes its world premiere in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, and we can’t wait. Check out the first trailer below and keep your eyes peeled for 2023 Cannes preview.