The indian version made in hindi is called bluffmaster. Nueve reinas nine queens 2000 ricardo darin movie english. Nine queens is a caper movie in the tradition of the sting or dirty rotten scoundrels. At the end of nine queens juan goes to a warehouse where he meets with the motorcycle thieves who were sandler and his sister, gandolfo, and juans fiancee valeria. Criminal is a 2004 american film based upon the argentine film nine queens. Nueve reinas is a 2000 argentine crime drama film written and. Nine queens is a brilliant piece of international filmmaking that will not disappoint any fan of the genre. Nine queens is like a south american version of stolen summer, the movie that. Marcos and juan, a pair of conmen, meet by chance at a convenience store one morning, and from there become partners in crime. Nine queens remake misses originals intensity sfgate. Nueve reinas nine queens international trailer youtube. Reilly left, diego luna center, and maggie gyllenhaal star as richard, rodrigo, and valerie in gregory jacobs criminal. An argentinian crime drama revolving around a sheet of rare stamps the nine queens.
Deliciously twistfilled, nine queens is a clever and satisfying crime caper. The bbc is not responsible for the content of external websites. Things begin slowly and steadily as juan pulls a bill changing scam at a local convenience store. Accepted without much analysis, that aphorism makes a great deal of sense. Nine queens 2000 full movie streaming download youtube. Nine queens joins a line of sly thrillers about masterpupil con artists and games within games within games that includes the sting, house of games, and heist. Nine queens is a wellacted, gorgeously directed, and finely written entertainment that will be sure to hold the interest of most viewers. Thats why they call it money, goes a muchparsed bit of wisdom from david mamets heist.
Early one morning, marcos observes juan successfully pulling off a billchanging scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Nine queens, however, takes this concept to a new level with so many twists and turns that it will keep you glued to your seat just so you can keep up. According to variety, some 350 screenplays were submitted in an argentine competition, bielinskys won, and he was given funds to film. The story centers on two con artists who meet and decide to cooperate in a major scam. Very early one morning, he goes to a convenience store.
Nine queens is like a south american version of stolen summer, the movie that won the contest sponsored by hbo, miramax, and matt damon and ben affleck. It hosts 500 plus fulllength tv shows and 5000 plus movies. I highly recommend seeing this movie before, and if, a us version is released. Gaston pauls ricardo darin graciela tenenbaum maria mercedes villagra gabriel correa. The inferior american version strips the menace and texture from the original without offering any big stars to compensate. Talented argentine director fabian bielinsky made just two films before his untimely death in 2006 and his first, nine queens, is now considered a classic in his native country. Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps the nine queens. Recommended for anyone who isnt on the tourism board of argentina. As the deceptions and duplicity mount, it becomes more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom, and we begin to ask ourselves. Immer, wenn wir an dem punkt sind, zu glauben, wir hattens gelost, gibts eine neue ebene. Nine queens is the story of a con within a scam within a heist, as smalltime swindlers try to go bigtime. Nueve reinas nine queens 2001 3 subtitles downloaded 552 times.
Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing nine queens near you. Nine queens is a 2000 argentine crime drama film written and directed by fabian bielinsky and starring ricardo darin, gaston pauls, leticia bredice, tomas fonzi and alejandro awada. Dont trust anyone in this movie, says joe queenan and that includes the director. Trailer of this fantastic argentinian film directed by fabian bielinsky. Finally, the nine queens script is here for all you quotes spouting fans of nueve reinas original title which was recently remade into criminal. One of the most interesting twists to this story is that almost every character is a thief, con, scamartist, or in some way untrustworthy. I know, i know, i still need to get the cast names in there and ill be eternally tweaking it, so if you have any corrections. Fastpaced and full of energy, nine queens is much like the city in which it is set the argentine capital of buenos aries. Juan, a smalltime thief, gets caught swindling a store, but marcos, a more experienced con man, gets him out of that jam and says hell teach the younger man the ropes. Enjoy all edits from the nine queens, where the best female freeskiers and snowboarders film and shoot with the the most well known photographers and filmers. Andre soares of alt film guide notes cheesy commercialism and sentimentality aside, reinas boasts a couple of firstrate performances and it delivers more than a few good laughs. Rotten tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 43% from 30 critics. The camera zooms out and we see berta, vidal gandolfo, sandler and the stamp expert among others.
This script is a transcript that was painstakingly transcribed using the screenplay andor viewings of nine queens. Ricardo darin plays a jaded con man who adopts a younger accomplice gaston pauls as a fill in for his missing partner. Early one morning juan is pulling a billswitching scheme in an allnight deli when marcos, an apparently innocent bystander, pretends to whisk him off to the police. Characters are brought in to the story to propel things along and statements about argentine society who isnt a. This is the major problem with the story as, if you stop paying attention for a moment, you lose the thread of whats going on.
A naive young wannabe grifter, juan gaston pauls, attaches himself to the older and more experienced con artist marcos ricardo dario for 24 hours to learn the. Nine queens becomes a shell game that requires close attention to figure out who is screwing whom. One of the most clever, most enjoyable thrillers in years. The camera pans down onto a table where there is a game of poker going on none of the players are revealed, and a pack of cigars called the nine queens is revealed. Nine queens is a neatly handled whosdoingwhom story that holds strong ties to such grifter films as the sting and david mamets house of games. Reilly, diego luna, maggie gyllenhaal, and maeve quinlan and is a production of section eight, the production company of steven soderbergh and george clooney. Starring ricardo darin, gaston pauls and leticia bredice. Ricardo darin, gaston pauls, leticia bredice, fabian bielinsky, cecilia bossi, patagonik film group.
The film was nominated for 28 awards and won 21 of them, and is now considered a classic in argentine film history. A seductively structured and superbly acted suspenser that breathtakingly piles swindle upon scam without giving. The film entitled nine queens is about the adventures of juan. David mamet might kill for a script as good as the one that fuels nine queens. Nine queens serves up new theme in theft film genre the. Nine queens, from argentina, is a heist flick from firsttime writerdirector fabian bielinsky that kicks the butt of such hollywood scams as the score. Nine queens script transcript from the screenplay andor. Though conceived, shot, and released before heist, the mametesque nine queens attempts to get inside that circle by sending its characters in pursuit of money. Nine queens serves up new theme in theft film genre. Early one morning juan is pulling a billswitching scheme in an all night. Ive seen the american version criminal 2004, which is also good, but does not really do justice to the original.
Nine queens involves innocentlooking juan gaston pauls and hardened, cunning marcos ricardo darin, who are two con men operating in buenos aires. He later comes back to the same store and tries to deceive the other cashier on duty. Find out where nine queens 2000 is streaming, if nine queens 2000 is on netflix, and get news and updates, on decider. Nine queens, from argentina, is a movie about two con men, juan and marcos, who stumble upon a scheme to sell a forged set of nine extremely valuable stamps to a shady spanish businessman whos being deported. The art of darin, who often plays sensitive guys in the argentine versions of chic. Marcos and juan, two smalltime crooks specialized in little swindles, decide to work together during 24 hours in. Forming a tentative partnership, marcos and juan stumble upon a. Argentinian director fabian bielinskys feature debut is the story of two con men, an old pro and a young beginner, who hook up for a day and seemingly stumble on the score of a lifetime. Marcos steps in, claiming to be a policeman, and drags juan out of the store. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies.
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