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hector/writer Fabian
Bielinsky is the king of Nine
Queens, the filmic house of
cards that holds up through
some two hours of the smartest cine-
matic swindling this side of David
Mamet, as two small-time sharks gam-
ble on passing off forged rare stamps —
the nine queens — as the real thing.
"In a way, everybody at some time in
their lives is a crook, lying. I wanted to
depict a universe where everybody
cheats," says the Argentinean filmmaker.
Scripted in Spanish, subtitled in
English, Nine Queens gets this viewer's
stamp of approval as one of the witti-
est and wickedly comical con jobs
since that infamous floating crap game
that those guys and dolls partook of in
old New York.
Bielinsky made his first film at age 13.
"It was kind of my bar mitzvah present
to myself," he says with a chuckle. He
made short work of that first effort, and
then, when in high school, he was "asked
by my teacher to make a short film."

"Unfortunately," he says, "nobody
saw it."
Nine Queens, winner of a number of
international awards — and the
biggest hit in Argentina in more than a
decade — makes up for that. And for
his friends and family who also cherish
their Judaism, the film is a reel treat.
Indeed, one of the key characters in
Nine Queens is a Jewish woman given
the royal treatment by one of the con
artists. "When he sees she's Jewish," her
sincerity vulnerable to his venal ways,
"he goes for the mother-son thing,"
b, tak-
ing advantage of her maternal myopia.
That sense of simpatica Jewish
mama hit home for the filmmaker,
whose Nine Queens is his first full-
length feature. "I really know about
Jewish mothers," he says, with an
affectionate salute to his own. D

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denly approached her on the fifth day.
"He's like, 'Broader,' says Messing,
in a thick New York accent that's
meant to be Allen but also manages to
evoke Barbra Streisand. "What?"
"Broader."
"Broader. I can do that."
After the next take, Allen's back.
"Better. But broader." Another take,
followed by the filmmaker again coun-
seling, "Better, better, but even broader."
Messing laughs as she recalls her
reaction at that moment: "OK, now
it's kabuki."
Clearly, making movies is serious work
to Allen, even when his aim is to maxi-
mize the laughs. But he scoffs at the sug-
gestion that the events of Sept. 11 made
humor and New York — his twin pas-
sions difficult to combine in a movie.
"You cannot imagine anyone making
Holocaust jokes in our lifetime, or for
quite a long time," Allen says thought-
fully. "And yet people now make jokes
about Christians being thrown to the
lions without even thinking about it.
So with the passage of time, the worst,
worst tragedies become digestible."

At 66, Allen is hard-of-hearing and he
is starting to seem just a tad frail. One
senses the recognition on his part that
perhaps he should be devoting his ener-
gies to weightier films. Might he make a
movie about his childhood, for instance?
"Not about my childhood, no," he
responds quickly, albeit shyly. "I do
have some ideas for things in my life
-.–
— not about my childhood, more
about when I was grown up — that I
would like one day to make into films.
"The film that I'm starting to work
on June 3 is a more serious comedy
than I've been doing over the last cou-
ple of years, and some of the incidents
in it I have drawn from my life."
Even if Allen won't share his experi-
ence of growing up Jewish in New
York in the '40s, we can still hope for
a personal, literate film about the tra-
vails of a brilliant Jewish intellectual
navigating his way through the enter-
tainment world of the '50s and '60s.
Well, we can hope .❑

Hollywood Ending, rated PG-13,
opens today.

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