Nine Queens (2000)
(Nueve Reinas)
Country: ARG
Technical: col 114m
Director: Fabian Bielinsky
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
Synopsis:
A smalltime con meets up with a past master who shows him a few tricks before they happen upon the possibility of a once-in-a-lifetime sting: an about-to-be-exiled swindler with a passion for stamps...
Review:
An entertainment with a similar dynamic to Mamet's House of Games, and as in that movie the audience's pleasure resides in being duped itself. It is a shame that, having made several tellingly accurate appraisals of the rot in Argentinian society (in the light of the events of 2002), and culminating in an extraordinarily prescient run on a bank, it jettisons its chance at serious status in favour of the populist device of pulling the rug from under our feet.
(Nueve Reinas)
Country: ARG
Technical: col 114m
Director: Fabian Bielinsky
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
Synopsis:
A smalltime con meets up with a past master who shows him a few tricks before they happen upon the possibility of a once-in-a-lifetime sting: an about-to-be-exiled swindler with a passion for stamps...
Review:
An entertainment with a similar dynamic to Mamet's House of Games, and as in that movie the audience's pleasure resides in being duped itself. It is a shame that, having made several tellingly accurate appraisals of the rot in Argentinian society (in the light of the events of 2002), and culminating in an extraordinarily prescient run on a bank, it jettisons its chance at serious status in favour of the populist device of pulling the rug from under our feet.
(Nueve Reinas)
Country: ARG
Technical: col 114m
Director: Fabian Bielinsky
Cast: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
Synopsis:
A smalltime con meets up with a past master who shows him a few tricks before they happen upon the possibility of a once-in-a-lifetime sting: an about-to-be-exiled swindler with a passion for stamps...
Review:
An entertainment with a similar dynamic to Mamet's House of Games, and as in that movie the audience's pleasure resides in being duped itself. It is a shame that, having made several tellingly accurate appraisals of the rot in Argentinian society (in the light of the events of 2002), and culminating in an extraordinarily prescient run on a bank, it jettisons its chance at serious status in favour of the populist device of pulling the rug from under our feet.