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BLEAK STREET (LA CALLE DE LA AMARGURA)
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Completed - SPANISH - Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

In the early morning hours, two elderly whores go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working. They are tired of not doing do.

Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Arturo RIPSTEIN
Writer(s) : Paz Alicia GARCIADIEGO
Cast : Patricia REYES SPÍNDOLA, Nora VELÁZQUEZ, Sylvia PASQUEL, Arcelia RAMÍREZ

Producer(s) : Walter NAVAS (35 MM)

Synopsis

In the early morning hours, two elderly whores go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working. They are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross dressing husband. The other, with her loneliness. But that night, they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin midgets wearing masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the dose proves fatal. They murder them unintentionally. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street. They are arrested.

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Country(ies) : MEXICO, GERMANY

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Festivals and Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2015 Masters
Ventana Sur 2015 Latam Screenings
BAFICI (Buenos Aires) 2016 Panorama
Gent IFF 2016 Feature Films


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