“Watch your briefcase, your suitcase, the door, the window, the car... watch your savings... watch your ass,” veteran grifter Marcos (Ricardo Darín) cautions the novice Sebastián (Gastón Pauls), pointing out the ever-present schemers, shoplifters and thieves lining the streets of Buenos Aires. Fabián Bielinsky’s celebrated film captures the anxious atmosphere in Argentina at the turn of the century and anticipates the country’s 2001 financial crash– an early sign that global growth could have disastrous limits.