Cinema
Nine Queens
Nueve reinas
Fabián Bielinsky · 2000
Synopsis
Juan and Marcos, two small-time crooks in Buenos Aires, meet one morning and are offered a deal worth several hundred thousand. They team up for twenty-four hours to sell nine very rare stamps, the Nueve Reinas, to a foreign collector who has to leave the country the next day, with the help of Valeria, Marcos's sister. Ricardo Darín and Gastón Pauls play the roles.
Context
The screenplay won the competition organised by the company Patagonik, among 260 or 350 texts, depending on the account. Presented at San Sebastián, the film was released on 31 August 2000 and drew more than a million and a half spectators; it received the Silver Condors for best film and best direction, and Hollywood made a remake of it in 2004. Restored in 4K from the original negative, it was re-released in Argentina in February 2024, then in France in April 2025, by Eurozoom.
Who it is for
A con-artist film in Spanish, one hour fifty-four minutes long, set over a single day, best seen without knowing anything about it.
Prizes and reception
A great popular success on its release, remade by Hollywood, then restored and re-released twenty-four years later.