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Valeria's price is that Marcos must confess to their younger brother Federico (Tomás Fonzi) how Marcos cheated him out of their family inheritance in Italy. When the con men have to improvise, Marcos asks Juan to use his savings to set up the deal. Sur le site Metacritic, il obtient un score de 80⁄100, sur la base de 30 critiques collectées[6]. Juan, another con artist, Marcos, is there and pretends to be a cop thief, con, scam-artist, or in some way untrustworthy. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 25 août 2020 à 10:12. This is where "Nine Queens" gets a bit too full of itself, as the story becomes a swirl of characters brought in to twist the plot around. Marcos, on the other hand, is a career criminal who offers Juan a partnership. Juan is initially uncomfortable with the bolder tactics of his new partner, upset that their first target together was a trusting old woman. The multi-layered con's final moves become labored by an unconvincing promise between Valeria and Marcos involving their younger brother's faith in his unsavory sibling. Soon after, an elaborated scheme seemingly falls into their laps: Sandler (Oscar Nuñez), a former business associate of Marcos, needs his help to sell counterfeit copies he made of some rare stamps called "The Nine Queens". Sooner Juan learns that Marcos is actually an experienced con artist and he invites Juan to be his partner in a scheme. Is Juan about to be conned? his partner? Their relationship becomes more complicated after a phone call from Marcos' sister Valeria. The story centers on two con artists who meet and decide to cooperate in a major scam. The reference to the banks and financial systems and the impact they have had in Argentina was therefore inevitable especially when … Then the plot thickens as they get a proposition from an old man, a scam expert himself. Turns out that Juan and everybody came up with He also tells that the Spaniard Vidal Gandolfo that is lodged in the hotel is a collector of stamps and will travel on the next morning. En France, le film a également été très bien accueilli par la critique. She tells that Marco's friend Sandler is very ill and wants to talk to him in the locker room. is the question asked in the story of two small-time swindlers, Juan (Gaston Pauls) and Marcos (Ricardo Darin), whose paths collide in a convenience store and quickly leads to a half-million dollar forgery scam on a … google_ad_width=120; want the money to himself, but when that backfired it was quickly 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. This fact, and because the gangster, Vidal Gandolfo (Ignasi Abadal), is about to be shipped out of Argentina, cause Marcos to bring Juan in on the scam that could net them a cool half million dollars. Recepción Fabián Bielinsky Muy bien recibido por la crítica. Marcos se renseigne auprès d'un employé de sa connaissance qui lui dit que la banque est en faillite et que le chèque ne vaut par conséquent plus rien. Marcos finds Juan at a gas station using childish "tricks" to cheat some money from the cashier and decides to help him out of the situation and take him under as his con man protege. “Este país se va al infierno” (Marcos, Nueve Reinas) By all accounts, the distrust levelled at banks reached a plateau by the turn of the century, most noticeably with the Cacerolazo’s, protests which involve the banging of pots and pans and made famous in Argentina. The duplicates are so good that only close scrutiny would reveal them as fakes. Juan's cut increases every time he helps Marcos clear another hurdle, but finally, Juan is called upon to put his life savings on the line. 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. (2005), the Malayalam film Gulumal (2009) and the Telugu film All the Best (2012). Juan et Marcos vont voir Gandolfo, qui doit quitter le pays le lendemain, et celui-ci leur offre 450 000 $ pour les timbres en leur disant de revenir le soir-même pour faire l'échange. "[9], Geoff Pevere of The Toronto Star wrote in his review of the film: "If Nine Queens draws you on a journey that eventually leads up a garden path toward your own suckerhood, it's all the more pleasurable for having done so with such slick expertise. The film's screenplay was adapted in the 2004 film Criminal. Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to … Marcos has 200 grand, so he needs 50 grand from Juan to complete the Juan accepts because he has some savings, but needs more to bribe a judge to release his father from prison. Nine Queens is a movie about the con-game. Sandler (Oscar Nunez), a counterfeiter, was about to make a huge deal with a wealthy businessman. But, things are not what they seem and the "cop" turns out to be a fellow con man, Marcos, who propositions the young scam artist to team up and make some real money. google_ad_type="text_image"; With the fake stickup we see obviously, yes, he did Marcos distributes percentages to a network of swindlers to work with him but there are too many con artists in action luring each other. They head to a five-star hotel where Marcos meets his estranged sister Valeria in the reception. The deal goes down at a hotel where Marcos' sister Valerie works. It turns out that Marcos stiffed his own sister and younger brother, Federico (Tomas Fonzi), from an inheritance. "Nine Queens" works as a look at a Buenos Aires the tourist rarely gets to experience, but its swindle isn't slick enough. it off, but then goes back to try again and is caught. Les scènes se déroulant dans l'hôtel étaient tournées en premier, dans l'hôtel Hilton de Buenos Aires, qui venait alors tout juste d'être inauguré[1]. "[7] Orlando Sentinel film critic Roger Moore gave the film four stars out of five, writing, "the laughs are dark, the puzzle steadily more engrossing and the surprises, just like Heist, are doozies, up to the finale.