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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Leisure Time Features
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Leisure Time Features
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary In the early morning hours, two elderly prostitutes go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not working. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and cross dressing husband. The other lives with her invalid mother and loneliness. But that night, they have a date to celebrate the victory in th...

Written By: Paz Alicia Garciadiego

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Leisure Time Features
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Leisure Time Features
  • 1 h 39 m

Bleak Street

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the early morning hours, two elderly prostitutes go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not working. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and cross dressing husband. The other lives with her invalid mother and loneliness. But that night, they have a date to celebrate the victory in th...

Written By: Paz Alicia Garciadiego

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
62
33% Positive
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67% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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67% Mixed
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88
Jan 20, 2016
Ripstein, who began his long career working with the maestro Luis Buñuel, has his one-time mentor’s post-idealistic anger but doesn’t adopt an insouciantly ironic mode to filter it through; his perspective is determined but never detached.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
88
Jan 18, 2016
Bleakness, Arturo Ripstein's film implies, demands different kinds of labor from a man than from a woman.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 14, 2016
The grubby melodrama should appeal to adventurous moviegoers — and to the director’s small-but-fervent cult — but even that crowd should brace themselves for something slow-paced and opaque.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 20, 2016
The film’s enigmas are atmospheric, and somewhat superficial. It solicits the audience’s morbid curiosity rather than gripping our emotions or haunting our dreams. It’s a creepy and beguiling oddity, willfully weird but, at the same time, not quite weird enough.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 18, 2016
Certain images...leave lasting impressions, though Garciadiego’s script doesn’t seem to do enough with the story, other than laying it out in linear order for Ripstein to film.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 20, 2016
The crime and aftermath (based on a real story) are the best parts by far, but these come well after many overextended scenes of selfish, squalid people treating one another like dirt.
By Farran Smith Nehme FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 18, 2016
Truth is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction but Ripstein struggles here to turn his odd collection of two-dimensional characters into real people. What does impress is the gorgeously crisp black-and-white cinematography, which deserves to be seen on the big screen.
By Boyd van Hoeij FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Productora 35, Wanda Visión S.A., Equipment & Film Design, Cinema Maquina, Alebrije Cine y Video, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad
Release Date Jan 20, 2016
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Gijón International Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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