Nine Queens Page #4

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
Website
1,386 Views


- Please, don't say that.

- It happens all the time.

Holy sh*t!

- Let's get help.

- Makes sense.

No, we'll do something else.

- We're going out and we'll use the stairs.

- That way?

Let me help you.

Your purse,

I'll place it here.

Shall I hold it for you?

- I didn't know that one.

- Neither did I.

- You improvised?

- Yes.

- Really?

- Yes.

That was fast.

And you have another asset

that'll make your life easier.

Something money can't buy.

You look like a nice guy.

Incredible! Once again you've

sent me the wrong paper!

I'm sick and tired of

coming myself to get it!

- What's your address?

- Viamonte 1 2 42, 2nd. "B".

- You're so cheap. Can't you buy it?

- Don't call me cheap.

Are you upset?

Of course I can buy it,

but I can also not buy it.

As everybody else would do if they could.

- D'you think everybody is like you?

- Like me? Most.

- The thing is they don't have enough balls.

- At least it's most.

Then there's the decent folk,

and then there's you...

and you would be... what?

What's up, man?

You wouldn't have gotten her out

of the elevator, would you?

- What are you talking about?

- The purse.

- You would have walked away with it.

- What do you mean?

You think I'm a thief?

I don't kill people.

I don't use a piece. Anyone can do that.

Do you want to see thieves?

Come.

Those two are...

waiting for someone

with a briefcase on the street side.

That one,

sizing up loaded victims.

They are there,

but you can't see them.

That's what it's all about.

They're there, but they aren't.

So mind your briefcase,

your case, your door...

your window, your car,

your savings.

Mind your ass. Because they're

there and they'll always be.

- Thieves.

- No... that's what everybody calls them.

They are spitters, breakers,

skin workers, blind fronts...

hoisters, hooks, stalls, petermans,

night raiders, spitters...

mustard chuckers, fences,

operators, swindlers...

I'm hungry.

Let's go to my office to get a meal.

What is it?

Sit there, wait for me.

- Anibal, could you clear my desk?

- Your sister called.

How d'you know it was my sister?

She said she was

your sister, Valeria.

I didn't know you had a sister.

- Yes, I got a sister.

- What time did she call?

- About an hour ago.

- Did she say what she wanted?

Get an office with a secretary

and stop busting my balls.

Get me something to eat,

something tasty.

If you don't mind,

I'll choose the meal next time.

You're a pain in the ass, kid.

- When?

- This morning.

- What did you say?

- That you were hospitalized.

- Why were you hospitalized?

- No...

I think I'm running out of credit.

I'm a mess with money.

It's hard for me to...

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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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