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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Ripstein again pairs a harsh provincial milieu with damaged desire, social cruelty, and a fatalistic emotional pull; its humid, enclosed atmosphere closely echoes the tragic world of The Realm of Fortune.
02
Why this pick
Its obsessive couple, grotesque tenderness, and steadily worsening moral trap retain Ripstein’s taste for melodrama pushed into painful, darkly ironic tragedy.
03
Why this pick
A claustrophobic study of control and deprivation, rendered with the same unsparing compassion for people trapped by poverty, possessiveness, and destructive dreams.
04
Why this pick
Buñuel’s savage Mexican social satire offers similarly corrosive humor, physical discomfort, and moral decay, though through a more surreal chamber-piece structure.
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Why this pick
Its unvarnished vision of Mexican poverty and cyclical misfortune carries the same bruising fatalism and refusal to sentimentalize people on society’s margins.
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01 / THE STORY
A very poor and handicaped man, lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works announcing things along the town ("The priest lost his cow, if someone sees it ..."). He is very interested in the cock fightigs. One day a man gives him a looser cock, thinking to give him something to eat, but instead he takes care of the animal and it becomes a winner cock. He begins to win some money. La Caponera, a very good looking singer, erlier avoided him but now she uses her coquetry to gain some drinks. He thinks she is his talisman so she marries her when he becomes rich, taking her apart from the show-bizz, so she begins to feel very unhappy.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Dionisio Pinzón
La Caponera
Lorenzo Benavides
La Pinzona
Madre de Dionisio
Cura de San Miguel
Don Isabel
Doña Iris