| Genre: | Suspense |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | ? |
| Length: | 110 min |
| Country: | Mexico/France/Spain |
| Cast: | Regina Orozzco, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Marisa Paredes |
| Credits: | Directed by Arturo Ripstein |
| Awards: | Sundance Film Festival
Latin America Cinema Award - Honorable Mention - Arturo Ripstein
Venice Film Festival
Best Original Music - David Manfield
Best Original Screenplay - Paz Alicia Garciadiego
BestSet Design - Monica Chirinos,Marisa Pecanins
Academy Awards, Mexico
Best Actor Daniel Gim‚nez Cacho
Best Actress Regina Orozco
Best Cinematography Guillermo Granillo
Best Costume Design M˘nica Neumaier
Best Make-Up Carlos S nchez
Best Production Design Monica Chirinos Marisa Pecanins
Best Set Design Antonio Mu¤o-Hierro
Best Supporting Actress Julieta Egurrola |
| Home Page: | http://www.profundocarmesi.com.mx/ |
Synopsis
Based on the real-life 1940's crime case, the "Lonely Hearts Murders" (which was also the inspiration for the 1970 cult film The Honeymoon Killers), Deep Crimson is an emotionally charged and profoundly original film from Mexico's leading contemporary director. Coral (played perfectly by the brilliant Mexican opera singer and actress Regina Orozco) is a hefty, half-end nurse living in a cocoon of movie-generated dreams. Through the lonely hearts ads in the local newspaper she finds her soul-mate Nicolas (Daniel Gimmex Cacho). After one night of steamy love making, Coral learns the truth about her new obsession - that he is a seedy con man who preys upon randy widows and desperate spinsters. Soon she leaves her old life behind to join him as they roam the dusy back roads of Mexico seducing and killing victims of their mad love. Featuring a breathtakingly elegant style, the sordid events and squalid settings are counterpointed by a constantly circling and gliding camera which dances an intricate tango that both exalts and entraps the characters.
"Deep Crimson is something rarer than an alienated saga of mad love or an accomplished black comedy - this is a convincing movie about evil, with vanity and greed the deadliest of sins...At once svelte and savage, Deep Crimson inspires a certain awe. It pities its monsters and dares us to feel for them." - J Hoberman, Villiage Voice (review from the New York Film Festival.)
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