Bleak Street (La calle de la Amargura)

Watched In 2017 (346 items)
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Hispano-American post-realism (69 items)
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Rip y Paz Alicia en su garbanzal. Una summa teológica ligera de su mundo, en blanco y negro para simplificar. La idea de que las putas se convierten en asesinas accidentales y los enanos en arrechos accidentados porque les dieron una dosis de somnífero para grandes; es preciosa. Y ni siquiera está subrayada.

Description: In the early morning hours, two elderly whores go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working. They are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross dressing husband. The other, with her loneliness. But that night, they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin midgets wearing masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the dose proves fatal. They murder them unintentionally. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have In the early morning hours, two elderly whores go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working. They are tired of not doing do. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and her cross dressing husband. The other, with her loneliness. But that night, they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin midgets wearing masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the tiny men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops. But the dose proves fatal. They murder them unintentionally. Scared and confused, they decide to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street. ... (more) (less)