Product Details

• Actors: Regina Orozco, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Sherlyn, Giovanni Florido, Fernando Palavicini
• Directors: Arturo Ripstein
• Writers: Paz Alicia Garciadiego
• Producers: Fernando Sarińana, José María Morales, Marin Karmitz, Miguel Necoechea, Pablo Barbachano
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Homevision
• DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
• Run Time: 114 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007989TI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,043 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Deep Crimson" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Based on the true story of the "Lonely Hearts Murders," renowned director Arturo Ripstein’s Deep Crimson (Profundo Carmesí) is an emotionally charged and profoundly original take on serial killing. Nicolas Estrella has made a meager living seducing and then stealing from lonely, often widowed, women he meets through the personal ads in local newspapers. While trying to victimize Coral, a hefty, half-mad nurse obsessed with Estrella’s movie star looks, Nicolas can’t help falling in love with her merciless enthusiasm for his seedy lifestyle. Together, the pair roam the back roads of Mexico looking for lonely women who Nicolas seduces and the insanely jealous Coral then murders. These lovers turned assassins feed on the misery of others with each murder binding them together all the more closely until a pitiful confession from Nicolas prompts the pair’s fitting demise.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Merciless And Brilliant., June 12, 2000

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Mr. Fellini "Fellini" (Orange County, California United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deep Crimson [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Deep Crimson" is a merciless movie that dwelves into human depravity and murder. It's directed by Arturo Ripstein, Mexico's most respected director who used to work under the wing of Luis Bunuel. In fact, there is a lot of Bunuel style in "Deep Crimson," a movie that shocks not only in violence, but in the entire story and character structure. In it's own way it's visceral and the performances are always chillingly convincing. Ripstein and his writer, Paz Alicia Garciadiego are not afraid to offend the audience and don't hold back, looking at reality unblinkingly. The photography is really rich, gritty and artistic. "Deep Crimson" can be seen as a study of human perversion mingled with lust and depravity. These are characters down on the evolutionary scale who resort to murder for petty reasons, and the way the murders are carried out and the way these characters act and the way Ripstein films it with such realism, is what makes the film effective and disturbing. "Deep Crimson" shows how sometimes American cinema can be really tame, Ripstein obviously isn't and shows his brilliance for realistic and effective cinema here. Obviously he learned well from Luis Bunuel, whom "Deep Crimson" would make proud.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A stylish film, with a camera that roams elegantly around the cluttered interior of 1940s Mexico..., December 14, 2008

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Roberto Frangie "Robert" (Leon, Gto. Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deep Crimson (DVD)

The best Mexican cinema has its roots firmly planted in popular genres... "Deep Crimson" is a crime film, based on the real exploits of the so-called Lonely Hearts Club killers in the post-war United States...

Nicolás and Colar are a grotesque version of Bonnie and Clyde, who rob not banks but vulnerable rich women...Nicolás is a middle-aged man of abundant charm with an unconvincing wig, who appeals to the snobbery of elderly widows by his ability to pose as a Spaniard, affecting the accent and mannerisms of the expatriate... Coral is an overweight single mother who drives her children and takes off with Nicolás, pushing him from robbery to murder...

Though money is the apparent motive, Coral is addicted to romance, as we see in the first shot of her bedroom, stuffed with cheap but gaudy clothes, Mills & Boon-type novels, and photographs of film stars... The killings the pairs commit are dictated by Coral's passion for Nicolás... He seduces women in order to steal them, and this incurs Coral's murderous jealousy...

Arturo Ripstein's film is essentially a study of thwarted passion turning repugnant... Coral is vicious, even to the extent of killing a young girl who has witnessed her mother's murder... Yet her gesture of offering her own hair to make Nicolás a new wig is at once tender and ridiculous...

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dark Comedy, January 9, 2008

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Robert A. Yourell "Robert A. Yourell" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deep Crimson (DVD)

I think the horror and perversion of the story has distracted some people from the comedic intent of the piece. The lines in the script that show how distorted the characters' thinking is are not intended to be parts of deep character studies. These people are characatures. You could compare this to Fargo and to The Vampire's Kiss in that way. This was no docudrama. It's an excellent addition to its genre. The edgy narcissism of the male and needy dissociation of the female lead really come across.