There really isn’t a genre, or more so a movement, within the history of cinema that is quite like Film Noir. Best known for inky black and white photography, rain soaked urban landscapes and men in fedoras being thrust into turmoil by beautiful women with not the best of intentions, Film Noir burst out of post war angst in the early 1940s, and has since become home to some of the most original and vital motion pictures within cinema. Films like Rian Johnson’s Brick have helped evolve this movement into something more than just a fancy name for films involving private investigators. Who would have thought there would be a luchador wrestling noir?
That’s exactly what Arturo Ripstein’s Bleak Street is, or at least in its broadest form. Thrusting us into the seedy underbelly of Mexico City and the world of luchador wrestling, Bleak Street is...
That’s exactly what Arturo Ripstein’s Bleak Street is, or at least in its broadest form. Thrusting us into the seedy underbelly of Mexico City and the world of luchador wrestling, Bleak Street is...
- 1/21/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Bleak Street, the very appropriately named new film from veteran Mexican director Arturo Ripstein, is ripped from the headlines, much like the TV show "Law and Order." Inspired by the double murder of two dwarf men who were popular luchadores (masked wrestlers), Bleak Street paints a vivid picture of the desperate characters who play out their quietly hellish existences in the titular location. Filmed in stark monochrome, it evokes both Fellini and Bunuel in both its intimations of a dark carnival and its biting social commentary, touched with a pronounced sense of the absurd.The lucha libre performers of this story are Little Death (Juan Francisco Longoria) and Little Ak (Guillermo Lopez), twin brothers who wrestle as miniature mascot versions of the normal-sized wrestlers Death and...
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- 1/19/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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