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      The Place Without Limits

      1978 1h 50m Drama List
      Reviews 69% Audience Score 50+ Ratings A transvestite wants to sell his Mexican brothel over his daughter's objections. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Mexican small town, a homosexual with a daughter who works as a prostitute too and helps him run the local whorehouse. However, this is not so much a tale of the world of prostitution but one of machismo, terrible violence and discrimination against the odd one out. The realism of this story is spot on. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Como Mexico hay varios! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member WEB-LETTERBOX. Colorida y fluida, no deja de ser interesante cada intento de Ripstein por retratar el infierno (como siempre). Sin embargo, también como siempre, hay cierta falta de naturalidad en esos infiernos que crea el director, que hace todo parecer arbitrario, morboso. / Colorful and fluid, it's interesting in the same way all of Ripstein's efforts to portray hell (the usual for him) are. However, also as usual, there is a certain lack of naturalness in these hells created by the director, which makes everything seem arbitrary, morbid. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review alejandro t It is the second time I watch this film and I liked it so much more than the first time (I was too young that time). Now I can appreciate the great drama and the script. Ripstein portaits as usually this emotinal claustrophobia in which thier characters fight for survive even if they never can succeed. It is a deep, sordid but also funny and melancholic piece of film. Pese a que no tenía ganas de volverla a ver, tuve la oportunidad de revisitar esta cinta en la cual los personajes captruan toda la fuerza de la pel{icula en el guión. Desde luego tamb{en está el típico ambiente que Ripstein imprime en sus cintas, en especial aquellas de los setenta, de sordidez barroca en al que sus personajes sacan las uñas para demostrar aun mas cuan indefensos son ante el funesto destino que se les presenta. Roberto Cobo no pudo despegarse del personaje de la Manuela pero ne parte porque es uno de los personajes más recordados en la historia del cine mexicano. Y El Lugar sin límites es una de las cosas rescatables del melodrama mexicano de los ultimos años del siglo XX. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member earns its reputation except for a couple of hack shots; the civilized town patriarch is sensitive but monstrous in his own way; despite the title, this is not the anything-goes exoticized Mexico, everyone in the movie is trying to ignore their own limitations...is that really hell, like the epigram at the beginning describes, or just a little theater for pathos? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member EL LUGAR SIN LIMTES. A voyage into claustrophobic mexican mind set where family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide all in a mexican town, metaphor of a whole country. This film fingerpoints the primitive problems that keep a whole of a microcosmos in stone age mentality denouncing it as the root of all that's wrong in said society. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A transvestite wants to sell his Mexican brothel over his daughter's objections.
      Director
      Arturo Ripstein
      Screenwriter
      Arturo Ripstein, José Emilio Pacheco
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      Spanish
      Release Date (DVD)
      Dec 5, 2006
      Runtime
      1h 50m