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Synopsis: Dirty Tricks stars Martin Clunes, who plays an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Although Edward can be charming and thoughtful, this camouflages an underlying calculating liar and manipulator. And although things are going great financially for Edward at the moment, he is under suspicion by a local CID inspector after a couple of murders in the area. An innocent dinner invitation by his friend and his wife triggers a series of events which lead our hero Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Paul Seed
  3 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.0
NOT RATED
Year:
2000
162 min
91 Views


In the beginning, anyway.

Quiero hablar

con Carlos Ventura.

MAN; Si.

Hola. Carlos.

It's me.

CARLOS:

I recognize your voice!

Yes, I should hope you do

recognize my voice.

Listen, I'm on my way

back to Malagrena.

Right now.

[Siren wailing]

I'll tell you when I get there.

I've got to go.

[Sighs]

Dennis, for some unknown reason,

got rather fond of me.

Mm, there.

Now, what do you think of that'?

That's -- That's smooth,

isn't it?

Slips down your throat

like velvet.

Now, this one

is a sort of a cross

between a late-harvest riesling

and an Amarone.

As in Valpolicella.

Ah.

KAREN:

[Meaning softly]

Now, this one is, uh...

[ Sniffs ]

Big.

It's a big wine.

Mm.

It's enormous.

It explodes in the mouth.

Big, hot...

hard, and juicy.

With a tremendous attack

on the nose.

Generous,

well-proportioned body.

Soft.

But very firm.

Have you been reading

these tasting notes?

EDWARD:

And a long, lingering

final...

...grip.

[Gasping softly]

Are you snoring, Karen'?

She snores like a pig.

I'm going to bed.

EDWARD:

Good night.

Night.

I don't suppose

an eternal student like you

could ever afford

30-year-old Armagnac.

You know how much this cost me'?

Not one penny.

Friend of a friend.

Payment in kind.

Lot of it goes on.

Shame to dump it on the dregs.

I'll get some fresh glasses.

Now, according to this bloke,

it has a smooth complexity

that defies description.

-[ Laughs ]

-[ Zips 1

it must be

absolutely bloody amazing

if he can find no words for it.

Honestly, the old bore

goes on and on and on

about his blessed wine.

You'd think he had nothing else

in his life.

[ Laughs ]

No, no, not the floor cupboard,

you twerp.

The one above your head.

Well, come on.

Chop, chop.

We don't want to be sitting here

all night, boy!

Oh, I'm just...

I was just coming.

[ Gasps ]

Ah! Ah!

[ Gasping ]

You all right'?

Oh. Cramp.

You want to learn to relax, boy.

It's good to be with a lad...

The rules were that this woman

would go down on me

in her husband's presence

but wouldn't touch me,

wouldn't see me or speak to me,

unless he was there.

...and get you

right royally pissed

on a cab sauv from Argentina.

[ Laughs ]

Good night, Dennis.

But wherever it might lead,

whether we wanted to or not,

I knew that night that we were

bound to go all the way.

Dennis even offered me

a free holiday m the Dordogne.

I was hoping that my real

intimacy with Karen

might begin now,

as it so often does

with English women en vacances.

It's about the only occasion

when they have enough time

for sex.

MAN:
Au revoir.

Merci beacoup, monsieur.

Bonne chance.

Ah, bonjour!

Bonjour!

Hi!

I'm so glad you decided to come.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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