"Deep Crimson" (18)

The factually based story of the 1969 cult movie, The Honeymoon Killers, dealt with an unscrupulous gigolo and an overweight nurse exploiting - and sometimes killing - lonely widows and single women. That story is revisited in Arturo Ripstein's Mexican film, Deep Crimson, which features formidable performances from Daniel Gimenez Cacho as the oily opportunist who styles himself after Charles Boyer, and Regina Orozco as the nurse whose becomes so besotted by him that she gives up her children and takes to the road with him in search of vulnerable victims. Her driven desperation recalls the Kathy Bates character in Misery and there are recurring echoes of Bunuel's influence in Ripstein's imaginative direction.