Bleak Street

Name: Bleak Street
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: January 20, 2016
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 62

2016

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Leisure Time Features | Release Date: January 20, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: In the early morning hours, two elderly prostitutes go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not working. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and cross dressing husband. The other lives with her invalid mother and loneliness. But that night, they have a date to celebrate the victory in theIn the early morning hours, two elderly prostitutes go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not working. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and cross dressing husband. The other lives with her invalid mother and 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. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street. [Leisure Time Features]… Expand

Director: Arturo Ripstein

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 99 min

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RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Jan 20, 2016

Ripstein, who began his long career working with the maestro Luis Buñuel, has his one-time mentor’s post-idealistic anger but doesn’t adopt an insouciantly ironic mode to filter it through; his perspective is determined but never detached. Read full review

Diego Semerene

Jan 18, 2016

Bleakness, Arturo Ripstein's film implies, demands different kinds of labor from a man than from a woman. Read full review

Lara Zarum

Jan 19, 2016

Like his onetime mentor Luis Buñuel, Ripstein favors sparse, naturalistic settings populated by pathetic-yet-zany characters and eschews anything that might be considered traditionally beautiful. Instead, he unearths beauty in the mire of his characters' social conditions and in their dedication to each other. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jan 18, 2016

Certain images...leave lasting impressions, though Garciadiego’s script doesn’t seem to do enough with the story, other than laying it out in linear order for Ripstein to film. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Jan 20, 2016

The film’s enigmas are atmospheric, and somewhat superficial. It solicits the audience’s morbid curiosity rather than gripping our emotions or haunting our dreams. It’s a creepy and beguiling oddity, willfully weird but, at the same time, not quite weird enough. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Jan 20, 2016

Neither Ripstein nor his wife and regular screenwriter, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, succeed in unearthing (or inventing) anything of more than sensational interest from this tragedy. Read full review

Boyd van Hoeij

Jan 18, 2016

Truth is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction but Ripstein struggles here to turn his odd collection of two-dimensional characters into real people. What does impress is the gorgeously crisp black-and-white cinematography, which deserves to be seen on the big screen. Read full review

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