Nine Queens **** (2000, Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice) – Classic Movie Review 1576

Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls star as Marcos and Juan, a couple of conmen who join forces to pull off a swindle involving a sheet of rare counterfeit stamps. They’re trying to con a stamp collector into buying the fakes – the nine queens of the title. But they soon find themselves in deadly trouble.

Writer-director Fabian Bielinsky’s excellent 2000 Argentinian crime caper thriller Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas) is cleverly handled and ingeniously written. There’s good, quirky acting from Pauls and Darin as well as Leticia Brédice as Marcos’ sister Valeria and Tomás Fonzi as their younger brother Federico.

It was remade in the US as Criminal (2004), with John C. Reilly, Diego Luna and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

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Ricardo Darín stars as Marcos.