Mexican Film Festival 2017 (The Projector)
Bleak Street
La Calle De La Amargura
Language
Spanish with English subtitles
Cast
Alberto Estrella, Lety Gómez, Silvia Pasqueld
Synopsis
The latest contribution to cinema from veteran auteur Arturo Ripstein is a darkly comedic and nihilistic black-and-white crime drama. We follow the parallel tales of two pairs of characters – one, a pair of elderly sex workers trying to make ends meet and another, a set of twin dwarf lucha libre wrestlers with a lot to prove. When their two worlds collide in a seedy motel, schemes are concocted and grave mistakes occur.