Thinking Aloud About Film: Deep Crimson (Arturo Ripstein, 1996)

https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/08/15/thinking-aloud-about-film-deep-crimson-profundo-carmesi-arturo-ripstein-mexico-1996/ This is our eighth podcast on Arturo Ripstein films. Increased exposure has only increased our appreciation; and Deep Crimson seems the best of the films we've seen. Based on a true story that was then made into a film by Leonard Kastle in 1970 -- The Honeymoon Killers -- Deep Crimson has a very particular tone, black and funny, encased in the structures of feelings of 1940s popular romances, and edging them towards the savage and brutal as the film unfurls. It's an extraordinary work.