Deep Crimson

Starring:Daniel GimÃ©nez Cacho, Regina Orozco, Marisa Paredes, VerÃ³nica Merchant, Giovanni Florido, Julieta Egurrola, Patricia Reyes SpÃndola, Rosa Furman, RenÃ© Pereyra, Alejandra Montoya, Ãlvaro CarcaÃ±o, Esteban Soberanes, Juan de la Loza, Sherlyn, GastÃ³n Melo, Bianca Florido, Fernando Palavicini, Alexandra Vicencio, Francisco Mauri, Ã“scar CastaÃ±eda
Director: Arturo Ripstein
Studio: Homevision
Product Type: DVD

Description

Based on the true story of the "Lonely Hearts Murders," renowned director Arturo Ripstein's Deep Crimson (Profundo Carmesí) is an emotionally charged and profoundly original take on serial killing. Nicolas Estrella has made a meager living seducing and then stealing from lonely, often widowed, women he meets through the personal ads in local newspapers. While trying to victimize Coral, a hefty, half-mad nurse obsessed with Estrella's movie star looks, Nicolas can't help falling in love with her merciless enthusiasm for his seedy lifestyle. Together, the pair roam the back roads of Mexico looking for lonely women who Nicolas seduces and the insanely jealous Coral then murders. These lovers turned assassins feed on the misery of others with each murder binding them together all the more closely until a pitiful confession from Nicolas prompts the pair's fitting demise.

Customer Reviews:

No sympathy for either of the main characters.......2005-12-24

or the women they conned. I think they all deserved what they got except for the little girl. How stupid can anyone be, pretty damed stupid I guess. He was a sexy as a lump of dog poop and her, never mind the weight issue, she was another lump of dog poop. Personally I think the guy was bi-polar and so was she. And she was a nurse! I don't know what the pay rate was for nurses at that time but at least she had a profession. She gave everything up for that jerk, she really had low low self esteem.

Merciless And Brilliant........2000-06-12

"Deep Crimson" is a merciless movie that dwelves into human depravity and murder. It's directed by Arturo Ripstein, Mexico's most respected director who used to work under the wing of Luis Bunuel. In fact, there is a lot of Bunuel style in "Deep Crimson," a movie that shocks not only in violence, but in the entire story and character structure. In it's own way it's visceral and the performances are always chillingly convincing. Ripstein and his writer, Paz Alicia Garciadiego are not afraid to offend the audience and don't hold back, looking at reality unblinkingly. The photography is really rich, gritty and artistic. "Deep Crimson" can be seen as a study of human perversion mingled with lust and depravity. These are characters down on the evolutionary scale who resort to murder for petty reasons, and the way the murders are carried out and the way these characters act and the way Ripstein films it with such realism, is what makes the film effective and disturbing. "Deep Crimson" shows how sometimes American cinema can be really tame, Ripstein obviously isn't and shows his brilliance for realistic and effective cinema here. Obviously he learned well from Luis Bunuel, whom "Deep Crimson" would make proud.

Much ado about nothing much.......2000-01-30

The way Roger Ebert and TIME magazine described this movie made me buy it and see it. I was expecting a gruesome masterpiece, something like Buñuel's "Los Olvidados" or any film by Bigas Lunas. Certainly, Arturo Ripstein directing is always a good omen, but... alas, it was not to be!

Sure, the story is quite disturbing, but not as shocking as you'd think. Daniel Giménez Cacho and Regina Orozco are O.K. but not in their roles of a lifetime. The girl playing the last victim makes the best performance of them all, and Almodóvar's favorite Marisa Paredes is thoroughly wasted in the most dreadful acting I've ever seen. Too bad, really, but worth watching once.

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