Deep Crimson
by Arturo Ripstein
List Price:
Our Price: $1.80
You Save: $18.18 (91%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.71 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD releases
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD Cover Information
Actor: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Fernando Palavicini, Giovanni Florido, Regina Orozco, SherlynDirector: Arturo Ripstein
Brand: Image Entertainment
Producer: Fernando Sariñana
Producer: José María Morales
Producer: Marin Karmitz
Producer: Miguel Necoechea
Producer: Pablo Barbachano
Producer: Tita Lombardo
Writer: Paz Alicia Garciadiego
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Homevision
Movie Reviews of Deep Crimson
Movie Review: A stylish film, with a camera that roams elegantly around the cluttered interior of 1940s Mexico...
Summary: 4 Stars
The best Mexican cinema has its roots firmly planted in popular genres... "Deep Crimson" is a crime film, based on the real exploits of the so-called Lonely Hearts Club killers in the post-war United States...
Nicolás and Colar are a grotesque version of Bonnie and Clyde, who rob not banks but vulnerable rich women...Nicolás is a middle-aged man of abundant charm with an unconvincing wig, who appeals to the snobbery of elderly widows by his ability to pose as a Spaniard, affecting the accent and mannerisms of the expatriate... Coral is an overweight single mother who drives her children and takes off with Nicolás, pushing him from robbery to murder...
Though money is the apparent motive, Coral is addicted to romance, as we see in the first shot of her bedroom, stuffed with cheap but gaudy clothes, Mills & Boon-type novels, and photographs of film stars... The killings the pairs commit are dictated by Coral's passion for Nicolás... He seduces women in order to steal them, and this incurs Coral's murderous jealousy...
Arturo Ripstein's film is essentially a study of thwarted passion turning repugnant... Coral is vicious, even to the extent of killing a young girl who has witnessed her mother's murder... Yet her gesture of offering her own hair to make Nicolás a new wig is at once tender and ridiculous...
Summary of Deep Crimson
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.Similar DVD Movies
Santa SangreMPI; Release date: 2011-01-25; DVD
Best price: $10.73
Price in other shops:
The Son's RoomBuena Vista Home Video; Release date: 2012-01-06; DVD
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops:
Broadcast NewsHURT,WILLIAM; Release date: 1999-10-05; DVD
Best price: $3.00
Price in other shops:
Kiss Me DeadlySony; Release date: 2001-06-19; DVD
Best price: $5.42
Price in other shops:
El Castillo De La PurezaTNT MEDIA GROUP; Release date: 2007-08-07; DVD
Best price: $90.00
The ProwlerVCI; Release date: 2011-02-01; DVD
Best price: $7.59
Price in other shops:
BiutifulLions Gate; Release date: 2011-05-31; DVD
Best price: $5.40
Price in other shops:
Island of Lost Souls (Criterion Collection)IMG; Release date: 2011-10-25; DVD
Best price: $16.27
Price in other shops:
The Honeymoon Killers (The Criterion Collection)STOLER,SHIRLEY; Release date: 2003-07-22; DVD
Best price: $17.50
Price in other shops:
The Place Without LimitsRelease date: 2006-12-05; DVD
Best price: $8.13
Price in other shops: