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TORONTO REVIEWS<br />
NINE QUEENS •••1/2<br />
where Juan and Marcos team up for a ruse<br />
Starring Gaston Pauls, Ricardo Darin, to obtain a counterfeit collection of some<br />
extremely rare stamps known as the Nine<br />
Leticia Brediee and Tomas Fonzi. Directed<br />
and written by Fabian Bielinsky. Produced Queens. Since they have a buyer already in<br />
by Pablo Bossi. A Sony Pictures Classics mind, their plan seems airtight—until<br />
release. Drama. Spanish-language; subtitled.<br />
other scam artists and derailed strategies<br />
send their promising racket into comic<br />
Rated R for language. Running time:<br />
115 min. Opens 1111102.<br />
episodes of misadventure.<br />
"Nine Queens" is a polished and vastly In "Nine Queens," the performances<br />
entertaining caper film that puts the sting turn out to be just as smartly deceptive as<br />
back into the con. Fabian Bielinsky, in his<br />
award-winning<br />
the story. Ricardo Darin demonstrates some<br />
of the same suave<br />
feature debut,<br />
malevolence that<br />
smoothly amuses<br />
Alan Rickman displays<br />
in his charming<br />
the audience with<br />
a deftly elaborate<br />
villainous roles.<br />
shell game. He<br />
Gaston Pauls also<br />
provides a divertingly<br />
sharp character<br />
shows a sly discernment<br />
as the supposedly<br />
innocent<br />
study that<br />
examines the<br />
Juan. The stunning<br />
question of honor<br />
Leticia Brediee<br />
among thieves.<br />
struts alluringly<br />
Juan (Gaston<br />
with a fiery confidence,<br />
Pauls) is a smalltime<br />
never over-<br />
Nine Queens" puts a new perspective on the caper genre<br />
crook who<br />
playing her hand.<br />
"Nine Queens" doesn't turn cute, or<br />
gets caught conning a convenience store<br />
clerk. Marcos (Ricardo Darin), a big-time pander to the audience, in the way director<br />
George Roy Hill did in "The Sting." The<br />
swindler, steps in to "arrest" him—with the<br />
hope of recruiting him for a bigger job.<br />
Soon Marcos' sister, Valeria (Leticia<br />
Brediee), contacts him from a luxury hotel<br />
movie may lack some of the shivering malice<br />
of "The Grifters," but it still manages<br />
to play a winning hand.<br />
—<br />
Kevin Courrier<br />
—<br />
MONSOON WEDDING<br />
••<br />
Starring Naseeruddin Shah, Lillet<br />
Dubey and Vasundhara Das. Directed by<br />
Mira Nair. Written by Sabrina Dhawan.<br />
Produced by Caroline Baron and Mira<br />
Nair. A USA release. Drama. English- and<br />
Hindi-language, subtitled. Not yet rated.<br />
Running time: 115 min. Opens 2002.<br />
Crowd-pleasing in the worst way, Mira<br />
Nair's "Monsoon Wedding," which won the<br />
Best Film in Competition award at the<br />
Venice Film Festival. is a failed<br />
"Nashville"-like look into the modernancient<br />
traditions co-existing uneasily in<br />
present-day India. Set in the period leading<br />
up to the New Delhi wedding of Aditi<br />
(Vasundhara Das), a reluctant Indian bride<br />
preparing to marry Hemant Rai (Parvin<br />
Dabas), a Houston-based Indian engineer,<br />
"Monsoon Wedding" has a broad sweep<br />
but not much depth. There are a few trite<br />
scenes revolving around globalization versus<br />
specific cultural attributes and all manner<br />
of family dynamics playing out<br />
onscreen, but little of what ensues is memorable,<br />
affecting or surprising. Compared to<br />
the films of the late Indian master Satyajit<br />
Ray ("Days and Nights in the Forest") or<br />
even a recent Indian set film like Deepa<br />
Mehta's lesbian romance "Fire," "Monsoon<br />
Wedding" brings nothing new to the<br />
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