Deep Crimson Director's Cut
Deep Crimson
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2h 16m
Mexican provocateur Arturo Ripstein takes the ever-ripe lovers-on-the-run premise of dime-store pulp to its deliriously overheated, wickedly perverse extreme. In 1940s Mexico, a lusty, hot-for–Charles Boyer nurse (Regina Orozco) meets a balding con man (Daniel Giménez Cacho) who’s touchy about his toupee through a lonely hearts ad, and it’s not long before they’re off on a cross-country crime spree robbing and murdering widows in between bouts of carnal passion. Based on the same true-crime shocker that inspired THE HONEYMOON KILLERS, DEEP CRIMSON—presented here in its 2023 director’s cut—blends the heavy-breathing hysterics of golden-age melodrama with startling violence and Buñuelian black humor.
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Deep Crimson
Directed by Arturo Ripstein • 1996 • France, Mexico, Spain
In this alternately macabre and mirthful thriller, based on a true-crime story, renowned Mexican director Arturo Ripstein brings a stylish audacity to the tale of the "Lonely Hearts Killers," a couple who, in the 1940s, posed as brother ...
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Director Arturo Ripstein reflects on the making of DEEP CRIMSON in this interview recorded by the Criterion Collection in Mexico City in 2025.
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In this interview, recorded by the Criterion Collection in Mexico City in 2025, screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego discusses her enduring collaboration with director Arturo Ripstein and the making of DEEP CRIMSON.
