El Cinco

The romantic drama El Cinco is about the 35-year-old Patón, Captain of the Talleres de Escalada football team, which plays in the Argentine C Class. After a foul, he is suspended for eight matches. Frustration and depression seem to be lurking in the background, but the opposite happens.
Adrián Biniez based his second feature partly on his own experiences. When he directed his feature debut Gigante (2009), a friend of his, a professional footballer, was playing his last matches. ‘While I was at the beginning of a whole new world, he was at the very end of a lifestyle he had been immersed in since he was a child. This intrigued me: how does one accept the end of a world with all its routines and codes and rituals?’
Now it’s clear that the future will bring neither fame nor money for Patón, he realises that it’s the end of his career, but also a step towards maturity. Together with his wife Ale, he goes out looking for a new start. Biniez surprises us, both by giving free rein to Patón’s restlessness and by showing how it gives him the energy to go back to school.