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Deep Crimson
Why this pick
Ripstein again turns melodrama into something grotesquely tender: a doomed couple, oppressive fatalism, and a baroque visual world where desire and degradation are inseparable.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1991 1h 50m MEX
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Place without Limits
Why this pick
A ravaged provincial cabaret becomes the stage for desire, humiliation, and violence. Ripstein sustains the same claustrophobic, compassionate gaze toward people trapped by power and circumstance.
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The Holy Girl
Why this pick
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Rosa la China
Why this pick
This brothel-set tragedy has a cool, deliberate formal beauty and an unsentimental tenderness for women navigating exploitation, giving it a kinship with Ripstein’s fatalistic melodramatic universe.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Perla is a teenager who has been prostituted by her mother, Tomasa and acts as a dancer in a cabaret-brothel. The pianist who plays at the venue is a romantic singer-songwriter and inveterate poet who would like to make art out of a sordid situation. When "el Marro", a sick sailor stops at the place and falls in love with the girl, the mother tries to cut off that relationship, but fails to do so. Because she knows that they are actually siblings.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Evangelina Sosa
Perla
Alejandro Parodi
Carmelo / pianist
Damián Alcázar
Marro / sailor
Patricia Reyes Spindola
Tomasa / Perla's mother
Alonso Echánove
Rufino
Fredy Camacho
Nicolas
Mario Castillón Bracho
Albino
Jorge Fegán
Policia