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Bleak Street

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58% Tomatometer 24 Reviews 38% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Prostitutes Adela and Dora are burdened with bad marriages and financial problems. To make ends meet, they drug and rob dwarf twins working as luchadores.
Bleak Street

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Critics Consensus

Opulent and odd, Bleak Street isn't quite weird enough to work.

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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas The Blue Lenses Aug 25, 2018
While undeniably outrageous at times, Bleak Street also takes its protagonists and their plights seriously. Like many of Ripstein's previous films, there is real grit and dirt within his desaturated poverty-riddled scenarios. Go to Full Review Walter V. Addiego San Francisco Chronicle Mar 10, 2016
3/4
Although the movie doesn't flinch at presenting a dark and unsavory portrait of a down-and-out slice of humanity, it also detects a glimmer of something more in the characters, nudging the story in the direction of tragedy. Go to Full Review Mike D'Angelo AV Club Jan 21, 2016
C+
The true story that inspired it raises eyebrows, but those raised eyebrows are all the film provokes, as well. That just isn't enough. Go to Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Sep 11, 2020
4/5
Having lost none of his penchant for the odd and bizarre, Arturo Ripstein's Bleak Street is a formidable late-career gem from the Mexican auteur. Go to Full Review Elissa Suh StageBuddy.com Mar 16, 2020
Ripstein has a careful, benign hand, free of caricature and sentimentality. His feat is in the storytelling; the stripped down version of the preposterous story reinforces its tragedy. Go to Full Review Steve Erickson Gay City News Feb 15, 2018
No one gets away unscathed in "Bleak Street"... but no one seems beyond redemption either. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Jan 20, 2016 Arturo Ripstein's film is a rather unpleasant true crime story (based on real-life events) relayed through an art house aesthetic that's often technically impressive, but rarely memorable. Shot in stark black-and-white without a soundtrack, the film is clearly going for a minimalist trajectory, but the style doesn't much but make an ugly story uglier. It just sorely lacks the character development for us audience members to really care about the decadence, nor does it find a way to make the material cinematically interesting. A noble effort, but it's not likely to be mistaken for art. See more Read all reviews
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Arturo Ripstein

Director

Patricia Reyes Spíndola

Adela

Silvia Pasquel

Doa Epi

Arcelia Ramírez

Zema

Alberto Estrella

Juanes

Alejandro Suárez

Max

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Bleak Street

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Movie Info

Synopsis Prostitutes Adela and Dora are burdened with bad marriages and financial problems. To make ends meet, they drug and rob dwarf twins working as luchadores.
Director
Arturo Ripstein
Producer
Walter Navas
Screenwriter
Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 29, 2017
Runtime
1h 40m
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