As deceptions mount, it becomes more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom. The tricky negotiations that ensue bring into the picture a cast of suspicious characters. The plot: Juan and Marcos are two con artists who get coincidentally involved in an affair that can make them millionaires: an old-time con man enlists them to sell a set of extremely valuable rare stamps, The Nine Queens. It has crime, romance, drama and thriller… The story is emotional, deeply involving, with very well-written dialogues. It has excellent cinematography (the soccer match scene is amazing), great acting and character development. Go see it because… The film -deservedly- won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. By reliving the past, he also comes in contact with a woman who has loved in silence all those years. Obsessed by a brutal murder occurred twenty five years earlier, in 1974, he decides to write a novel about it. The plot: Benjamin Esposito is a recently retired legal counselor.

EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS (THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES), 2009 These 10 movies will help you understand better Argentina’s culture and mentality: 1.

It was not until the 1990s that young directors started what is now known as the New Argentine Cinema. This new cinema is mostly focused on criticising modern Argentine society and digging deep into the lives of individual characters with large doses of realism, depicting the complexity of human nature. Under the military junta in the 1970s it suffered from censorship and repression. The effects of that period carried over into the next decade, with few exceptions (see below). The recent Oscar nomination to the film Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales) reminded me of many other, worth watching Argentinean movies.Īrgentina’s cinema has been profoundly influenced by the country’s history. Starting already at the end of the 19th century, it had its Golden age in the 1930s-50s.

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