Blending sweeping melodrama with macabre humor and eruptions of berserk violence, Arturo Ripstein transforms one of the 20th century’s most infamous true-crime stories into a haunting, deliriously perverse portrait of obsessive love—starring Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho as a twisted couple who seduce, rob, and murder women across 1940s Mexico.
Blending sweeping melodrama with macabre humor and eruptions of berserk violence, Arturo Ripstein transforms one of the 20th century’s most infamous true-crime stories into a haunting, deliriously perverse portrait of obsessive love—starring Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho as a twisted couple who seduce, rob, and murder women across 1940s Mexico.