About.
Company
New Zealand International Film Festival
Duration
117 minutes
Advisory
M Offensive language
La Odisea de los Giles
Argentina/Spain 2019
In Spanish with English subtitles
After being scammed into bankruptcy, a community of working-class Argentines band together to devise the ultimate payback – an elaborate money heist inspired by the movies – in Sebastián Borensztein’s winning underdog comedy.
Ricardo Darín, Argentina’s rustic leading everyman and no stranger to the crime-caper genre, stars in this endearing, old-timey heist movie about sticking it to the man. When Darín and his hardworking neighbours are fleeced of their life savings on the eve of the country’s 2001 financial crisis, the future looks grim, until they get a tip-off that the devious lawyer who swindled their cash has hidden it all in an underground vault, presumably for a rainy day. Revenge has never felt so satisfying – or sweetly ironic – as the titular losers plot to reclaim what’s rightfully theirs on the night of a torrential downpour.
“Empathetic and entertaining… Heroic Losers’ always timely, universally relatable tale goes a considerable way. Pitting ordinary folks against the rich, powerful and unscrupulous has long given Robin Hood-style stories an appealing glow, as has exploring the economic disparity and potential for corruption inherent in such class clashes… Transforming bleak reality into an uplifting fantasy… it’s pure cathartic escapism… [and] when the central heist clicks into gear, the film cracks its way into rousing territory.” — Sarah Ward, Screendaily
Credits
Sebastián Borensztein
Director
Hugo Sigman, Ricardo Darín, Matías Mosteirín, Chino Darín, Federico Posternak, Leticia Cristi, Fernando Bovaira, Simón de Santiago
Producers
Sebastián Borensztein, Eduardo Sacheri
Screenplay
Rodrigo Pulpeiro
Photography
Alejandro Carrillo Penovi
Editor
Daniel Gimelberg
Production Designer
Julio Suárez
Costume Designer
Federico Jusid
Music
With
Ricardo Darín
Perlassi
Luis Brandoni
Fontana
Chino Darin
Rodrigo Perlassi
Verónica Llinás
Lidia
Daniel Aráoz
Belaúnde
Carlos Belloso
Medina
Marco Antonio Caponi
Hernán
Rita Cortese
Carmen Largio
Andrés Parra
Manzi
Festival
Toronto 2019
San Sebastián 2019
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Based on the novel by Eduardo Sacheri [The Secret in Their Eyes], Heroic Losers is by turns sombre, hilarious, and suspenseful… with a memorable crew of characters you can’t help but root for.
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