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  • Actors: Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Graciela Tenenbaum, María Mercedes Villagra, Gabriel Correa
  • Directors: Fabián Bielinsky
  • Writers: Fabián Bielinsky
  • Producers: Pablo Bossi
  • Format: PAL
  • Language Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Jan 2003
  • Run Time: 113 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007JGNE
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 26,406 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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If David Mamet had been born in Buenos Aires instead of Chicago, Nine Queens is most likely the kind of movie he'd be making. An intricate, playful scam caper, where not only the characters but we the audience are constantly trying to suss out who's screwing whom--and how, and why--it's a movie very much in the Mametian mould. But at the same time the Argentinian setting gives Fabian Bielinsky's debut feature a specifically Latin pungency and the urgent sense of a society teetering over a financial abyss. Which is all the more remarkable since, even though a key plot-point turns on a bank going bust, the movie was made a few months before the Argentinean economy went belly-up.

The intrigue grips from the very outset as Juan, a young con artist, overreaches himself in a grocery store. He's rescued from disaster by Marcos, an older and more experienced grifter, who then takes him on in a master-pupil relationship. When the chance of a major coup involving some rare stamps (the Queens of the title) turns up, the partnership starts coming under strain; can either one really trust the other? And is either who he pretends to be? The plot suffers from a few implausibilities and loose ends, but sustains its momentum beguilingly. Ricardo Darín, as the saturnine Marcos, and Gastón Pauls as the fresh-faced, seemingly ingenuous Juan play off each other beautifully--but the dominant character is the seething, hustling city of Buenos Aires itself, where social mores are fluid and uncertain, and everybody has his eye out for the main chance. This is a society Bielinsky (who also scripted) clearly knows intimately, and like a true con-artist he makes shrewd use of his expertise to keep us guessing right up to the final twist. –-Philip Kemp

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Too much praise for a movie that isn't overly well-known?, 26 Feb 2005
By Bel Alcat "bel_78" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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"Nine Queens", or "Nueve Reinas" in its original Spanish title, is one of the more entertaining Argentinian movies I've watched so far. The dialogue is witty, the action doesn't stop, and the acting is flawless. Too much praise for a movie that isn't overly well-known?. Well, even good things are not widely recognized to be so sometimes, and this is one of those occasions.

The theme of the movie is not overly original: two conmen trying to pull off a scam that involves a set of stamps (the "Nine Queens"), and a lot of money. But what makes this movie interesting is how that idea is developed, managing to surprise the spectator until the very end. The director (Fabián Bielinsky) also wrote the script, that won a National Prize in Argentina.

Scam after scam, you will feel you are taking part of the many "adventures" of a very seasoned Marcos (Ricardo Darín) and an endearingly young and idealistic Juan (Gastón Pauls) in their quest to become rich, albeit for very different reasons. The question is, who is conning whom?.

All in all, I think you will thoroughly like this movie. The story and the acting are great, and so is the beautiful setting, the city of Buenos Aires. Watch it, and enjoy :)

Belen Alcat

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best film of any genre for 2002., 29 Nov 2002
Nine Queens is a great example of why so many people do not espouse the idea that Hollywood is the be all and end all of the movie industry. What becomes apparent from the outset in this film is that the plot, so rarely present in most screen presentations these days, will be what carries the movie from beginning to end.

The Nine Queens are a set of stamps made for the Weimar Republic during the time of Hitler's Third Reich. Needless to say, to the right buyer they are worth a lot of money. So, when our protagonists, newly made friends and confidence tricksters, come into possession of nine fakes, it becomes their greatest challenge to get them sold. But things do not go exactly to plan and what unfolds is a tense, intelligent and unwittingly funny drama of the highest calibre.

I can say with my hand on my heart that if you like films, there absolutely no way you will not like this.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars World Cinema ago-go, 3 Sep 2003
By Anthony Peckham "meantime_tony" (Leatherhead, UK) - See all my reviews
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Cracking film this one. Nine Queens is everything Hollywood strives to be - intellegent, funny, sophisticated. It's a film that you have to concentrate on, but once you are lost in the shade dodgy dealing Buenos Aires underworld, you're hooked. Fantastic dialogue and character interaction that leads up to the mother of all twists at the end.

Broaden your mind to another Country's cinema, it won't disappoint!

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