Nine Queens
by Fabi?n Bielinsky
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Actor: Gabriel Correa, Gast?n Pauls, Graciela Tenenbaum, Mar?a Mercedes Villagra, Ricardo Dar?nDirector: Fabi?n Bielinsky
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Marcelo Camorino
Writer: Fabi?n Bielinsky
Editor: Sergio Zottola
Producer: Pablo Bossi
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
DVD Reviews of Nine Queens
DVD Review: This Movie (and Ricardo Darin) Seduces You
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie holds your interest throughout the entire film and keeps you guessing. The question is who is conning who.
This movie was made in Argentina, complete with beautiful scenery and photography.
There is also a lot of humor, action and suspense, which you seldom find in one movie.
I received this movie for my birthday and it was the best present I received. If you are a Ricardo Darin fan, don't miss this one! He is one sexy man.
DVD Review: "The Sting" was better, but its still worth watching.
Summary: 3 Stars
Two con-men, Marcos (Ricardo Darin), a man who is capable of ripping off his own siblings, and the younger, less hardened Juan (Gaston Pauls), meet at a gas station and decide to be partners for the day. A series of events leads to them working together to sell a set of forged postage stamps, the "nine queens" of the title, to a collector, but things become complicated when it turns out that the collector is staying at the same hotel where Marcos's sister works.
"Nine Queens" would have been a really great film if it wasn't for the fact that "The Sting" came first and "The Sting" did it better. Although the two films differ in many ways, at heart, "Nine Queens" is just a homage/rip-off of "The Sting" and just about every David Mamet film ever made. Furthermore, having seen so many of this type of film, where you expect there to be assorted "surprise" plot twists at the end, I could see the ending coming a mile off. Nevertheless, if you can put that aside, it's not a bad film. I don't think its good enough to warrant a remake (it was remade as "Criminal", starring John C. Reilly and Maggie Gyllenhaal), but I don't feel like I wasted my time by watching it either. Given the fact that this is, evidently, a low budget film, writer/director Fabian Bielinsky makes the most of what he has. There are no special effects and no big-name international actors, but the script was strong enough to hold my attention and doesn't have that annoying stagey feel that a lot of low-budget films seem to have. Based on this film, I think that Bielinsky shows a lot of promise as a filmmaker and I am interested in seeing his other movie, "The Aura". It is a terrible shame that he died at such a young age (46), having only made these two films.
DVD Review: Watch it twice!
Summary: 5 Stars
Quite simply stupendous with constant tension and superb acting. You're never quite sure where this is going, but the by the finale, you'll have learned you were wrong!
Six stars!
DVD Review: An Argentinian Gem
Summary: 4 Stars
If you ever need a reminder that you can make a class A film on a
shoe-string budget, rent Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), a marvelous,
gripping, and often very funny drama about the culture of con-men and
those whom they con. I'm not sure what the budget of this film was, and
I'm sure the very professional and excellent actors and crew were
well-paid, but my point is that the story-line and direction are what
make this film, and the actors are so well-cast that it all comes off
without a hitch. Unlike some con-movies, the whole thing is believable
and I had a hard time finding holes in the plausibility post-facto.
Leticia Bredice, who played a vulnerable, sexpot-victim in _Cenizas del
Paraiso_, plays *quite* an impressively different character here.
Ricardo Darin and Gaston Pauls are fascinating and marvelous. I'll let
you decide for yourselves whether there's any transcendent message in
this film, but even without, it's some serious fun.
DVD Review: Who is conning who?
Summary: 3 Stars
Nine Queens is a pretty good Argentinean movie full of cons and twists that you are never really sure who is cunning who. Two con men partner to carry out a con that will get them a lot of money: selling a counterfeit copy of the Nine Queens Stamps. Along the way to carry their con they have to deal with conning each other, staying sharp, theft of the nine queens, people that want money to stay quiet and a sister that a bit bitter about an inheritance she was supposed to get and never received. Too bad they really need her help to carry out the con. The movie keeps you interested in what is going on and very concentrated trying to figure out who is cunning who. The movie has tons of twists, turns and cons that keep on coming to the very end.
Description of Nine Queens
When two small-time thieves enter a risky high-stakes con game together..Neither the players nor the audience knows for sure who is playing whom in this taught psychological thriller that will keep you guessing till the very last second. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Starring: Ricardo Darin Run time: 115 minutes Rating: R Director: Fabian BelinskyNine Queens joins a line of sly thrillers about master-pupil con artists and games within games within games that includes The Sting, House of Games, and Heist. In the first five minutes, we watch an overt scam--a young Argentinian named Juan (Gast?n Pauls) running the two-10s-for-a-5 hornswoggle on a convenience store clerk--then find that we have been tricked along with the bystanders as another brand of deception kicks in. And so it goes as Juan, with both trepidation and excitement, drifts into partnership for a day with an older, more cosmopolitan conman, Marcos (Ricardo Dar?n). Knocking around Buenos Aires--from gritty downtown to cozy neighborhood side streets to a swank hotel where wealth murmurs behind every door--these damnably resourceful scoundrels try not to miss a bet, including an epic swindle involving the titular "Nine Queens," a set of ultrarare stamps. Writer-director Fabi?n Bielinsky keeps a taut rein on everything, including his own cleverness. The end result is an entertainment as bracingly disciplined as it is ingenious. --Richard T. Jameson
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