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Queen of Diamonds is a 1991 American independent drama film directed by Nina Menkes, starring her sister Tinka Menkes. Plot [ edit ] A portrait of a damaged, alienated woman named Firdaus, who also works as a Las Vegas blackjack dealer.
Nov 29, 1991 · Queen of Diamonds: Directed by Nina Menkes. With Tinka Menkes, Jeff Douglas, Emmellda Beech, Kathryn Francomacaro. Amid glittering casino lights and desert landscapes of Las Vegas, a blackjack dealer called Firdaus ponders the fate of her missing husband while her next-door neighbors deal in mutual abuse.
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- Drama
- Nina Menkes
- 1991-11-29
Watch trailer. Genres: Art, Drama. Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes. Subtitles: English. Availability: Worldwide.
Apr 19, 2019 · 221. 21K views 5 years ago. Critically acclaimed for her radical feminist body of work, Nina Menkes’ Queen of Diamonds (Sundance ’91) is the second title in a quartet of films (alongside...
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- Nina Menkes
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- Tinka Menkes
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Apr 25, 2019 · The writer David Foster Wallace called Las Vegas “a city that pretends to be nothing but what it is, an enormous machine of exchange.” “Queen of Diamonds,” a 1991 film by Nina Menkes set in...
Synopsis. Firdaus is a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed between glittering casino lights and the deteriorating desert oasis. Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence, Firdaus’ world unfolds as a fragmented interplay between repetition and repressed anger.
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