The Place Without Limits

El lugar sin límites

Mexico

1978

110 Min

Color

Spanish

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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SCR José Donoso, Arturo Ripstein, José Emilio Pacheco, Manuel Puig

CAST Roberto Cobo, Lucha Villa, Ana Martín, Gonzalo Vega, Julián Pastor, Carmen Salinas, Fernando Soler, Emma Roldán, Hortensia Santoveña, Blanca Torres, Marta Aura, Tere Olmedo

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a whorehouse to own all the buildings and close the deal. It’s owned by a man and his daughter: Manuelita is gay, aging, afraid; he cross-dresses and entertains as a flamenco dancer; he wants to sell and leave. His daughter wants to stay. The return of Pancho complicates things: he’s a hothead Alejo tries to control and he scared Manuelita the year before. Things come to a head as Pancho breaks Alejo’s hold on him, then flirts and dances with Manuelita and finds himself at risk of being called a “maricón.” –IMDb

Director

Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director who got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, in which he began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors.

Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity.