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Deep Crimson
Why this pick
Ripstein again turns desperate longing into lush, cruel melodrama, following an unruly woman whose hunger for devotion drives a volatile, darkly comic romantic odyssey.
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MOVIE1994 1h 57m MEX
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Patricia Reyes Spindola
Lucha Reyes
Alberto Estrella
Pedro Calderón
Blanca Guerra
La Jaira
Ana Ofelia Murguía
Doña Victoria
Arturo Alegro
Oñate
Pedro Altamirano
Gordo
Roberto Antunez
Gus
Marta Aura
Balmori