1978 · drama · lgbt
The Place Without Limits
Directed by Arturo Ripstein1h 50m1978
Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and dreams collide in a small Mexican town.
Our read: The Place Without Limits (1978) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · lgbt entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / lgbt, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
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