The first thing you need to know about Daniel Sivan's feature documentary Dirty Tricks, premiering as part of the Hot Docs festival, is that the title is a pun.
You see, it's about a cheating scandal in the world of elite bridge and, of course, a "trick" is the standard competitive unit in the game — as it is in hearts, spades and euchre.
That, it turns out, is actually all you probably need to know going in. Bridge gives the impression of being impenetrable — a game you can't master unless you're wealthy enough to have idle time or you've had decades of life experience building up to a regular game in well-earned retirement, like my grandmother, your grandmother and everybody else's grandmother.
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