Nine Queens Page #3

Synopsis: Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Marcos steps in, claiming to be a policeman, and drags Juan out of the store. Once they are back on the street, Marcos reveals himself to be a fellow swindler with a game of much higher stakes in mind, and he invites Juan to be his partner in crime. A once-in-a-lifetime scheme seemingly falls into their laps - an old-time con man enlists them to sell a forged set of extremely valuable rare stamps, The Nine Queens. The tricky negotiations that ensue bring into the picture a cast of suspicious characters, including Marcos' sister Valeria, their younger brother Federico and a slew of thieves, conmen and pickpockets. As the deceptions mount, it becomes more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Fabián Bielinsky
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  22 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
80
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2000
114 min
$1,078,919
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- What is it?

This gentleman says

he paid me but it's not true.

- Are you calling me a liar?

- No, sir. There must be a confusion.

No. I had a coffee and paid

with a $1 00 bill.

I had two,

now I've got one.

Check.

Maybe you got confused.

Don't insist with the confusion bit.

There's no confusion. Look.

I had two bills, now I have one.

Look, that's it.

The tip is cut off.

The bill I paid with is missing the tip.

Check in your register box

if there's a bill with a missing tip.

Cut it, I'm in a hurry.

- Come.

- I'm not going anywhere.

Go get my change.

I'm not going anywhere. Are you nuts?

What is it?

Your cut. Like it?

- I knew this trick.

- You do it?

- No.

- Why?

Too many people around.

You have to make a scandal.

- It's not my style.

- But that's the point, pal.

They are not prepared to get

into a scandal. What's the key?

The more offended you are,

the less suspicious you look.

If things get tough,

you accuse the rest of them.

Not my style.

- What part?

- The exposure, I don't like it.

The risk of something going wrong.

- Lf the going gets rough, I can't do it.

- You chose the wrong job.

I didn't choose.

D'you have some small change?

I have to make a call.

It's private... you know...

Arrange it. Bye.

Who were you talking to?

With my lawyer.

I still have some outstanding business.

- Who was it?

- A friend.

Okay, what's next?

I don't know.

In fact I've been thinking...

I don't know if it's worth it.

All this... perhaps it's best

that you go on with your stuff.

Turco must be coming

back soon and...

if he finds out I've replaced him,

he'll get mad.

Turco is a bit jealous.

No, wait, what is it?

Nothing... this is not for you.

You're not into it.

- You could f*** up, and if that happens...

- What could I f*** up?

What kind of an idiot d'you think I am?

- The kind who thinks too much.

- Is that a liability?

- It's a liability.

- Why?

If you think too much,

you won't do some things.

Look, I need the money.

Splitting 50% with you, I'll make more

than 1 00% if I were on my own.

This is not about learning

a couple of tricks.

Any a**hole knows it.

You need something else for this job.

Talent...

and you've got it.

Otherwise, I wouldn't be alive.

Are you that good?

Can you achieve anything you set out for?

Anything.

Can you get that purse

in less than two minutes?

- She has to voluntarily hand me her purse?

- In two minutes.

No, not that.

- I can.

- No, you can't.

I bet you the ring.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- Go ahead.

- Thanks.

- What floor, madam?

- Fourth.

- And you?

- The penthouse.

- What is it?

- I don't know.

These old elevators,

they break down, they fall down.

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Fabián Bielinsky

Fabián Bielinsky (3 February 1959 – 28 June 2006) was an Argentine film director born in Buenos Aires. He started to make films early in life, while still a high school student in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. After graduation he started studying psychology, a career he pursued for a short time before dropping out in favor of enrolling in the Centro de Experimentacion y Realizacion Cinematografica (CERC, actually ENERC, INCAA's film school), from which he graduated in 1983 with a short film called La Espera, based on a story by Jorge Luis Borges. He directed his first film, Nine Queens (original title Nueve Reinas) in 2000, and the second one, El Aura, in 2005, which he was going to present in Edinburgh, at the International Film Festival, a month later. Both films starred Ricardo Darín in the lead role. Bielinsky died from a heart attack while in São Paulo, Brazil, casting for an advertisement. more…

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