Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Desperate to escape poverty, villager Dionosio Pinzón restores an injured rooster to health and starts pitting it in cockfights. When the bird proves to be a fierce competitor, the money begins rolling in and Dionosio abandons his humble roots to cultivate the trappings of wealth.
Desperate to escape poverty, villager Dionosio Pinzón restores an injured rooster to health and starts pitting it in cockfights. When the bird proves to be a fierce competitor, the money begins rolling in and Dionosio abandons his humble roots to cultivate the trappings of wealth.
Cloaked in the magical-realist atmosphere of its original source material—Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s much-adapted cockfighting story—Arturo Ripstein’s is a baroque and brutish retelling. This decadent fable captures the vertigo-inducing highs and dizzying lows of fortune with tragicomic timing.