{"id":95,"date":"2002-08-05T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-05T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2002\/08\/nine_queens\/"},"modified":"2002-08-05T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-05T11:51:00","slug":"nine_queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2002\/08\/nine_queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally got around to seeing Nueve reinas<\/a> yesterday, as London was being deluged by flash floods.
\nI absolutely love the con-artist film sub-genre. The likes of David Mamet’s House of Games<\/a> or Stephen Frears’ The Gifters<\/a>. The sort of film where you know that there’s a scam behind the scam but you’re not sure what it is. Well this is firmly in that vein. Juan earns a living by carrying out basic con tricks involving change and large banknotes (you’ve seen this done before), when he runs into Marcos who helps him out in a tricky situation, and then takes him under his wing for the pair of them to reap bigger rewards – his regular partner having disappeared. So we travel the streets of Buenos Aires seeing con after con, and meeting some of the characters that inhabit this world. I don’t want to spoil the story by saying much more, but this is a great film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally got around to seeing Nueve reinas yesterday, as London was being deluged by flash floods. I absolutely love the con-artist film sub-genre. The likes of David Mamet’s House of Games or Stephen Frears’ The Gifters. The sort of film where you know that there’s a scam behind the scam but you’re not sure what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}