The Place Without Limits

★★★★★

Original title: El lugar sin límites

“Below heaven is hell, and below hell there is...”

1978 · 1 h 50 min

Directed by Arturo Ripstein

Drama

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Cast

Roberto Cobo Lucha Villa Ana Martín Gonzalo Vega

Credits

Written by: José Donoso

Plot

A story of a brothel in a small town.

Sinekatalog’s take

Arturo Ripstein's drama follows a small-town brothel run by an aging drag queen and a menacing local man. Roberto Cobo is superb in a tough, tragicomic and daring Mexican classic of desire and violence.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (1,912 votes)
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