Deep Crimson
Synopsis
This story is inspired by real-life events. Mexico, 1949. Coral Fabre, a buxom and sensual young nurse, a single mother of two children, sees a personal ad placed by Nicolas Estrella, known as Nico, a double of Charles Boyer, the French actor she adores. Coral, fed up of being alone, arranges a date with Estrella: she immediately falls for him. Nico, on the other hand, feels like fleeing. But... he ends up in Coral’s bed and vanishes at dawn after stealing her savings. So Coral dumps everything and moves into Nico’s place by surprise with her two children. Nico finds an excuse: he doesn’t want to look after the children. But nothing stops Coral: the next day she abandons her children at an orphanage. Then, she searches through her lover’s past and unearths proof of his guilt in the death of his wife and makes him understand that they are “united to death”. Nico, trapped but impressed by Coral’s love, feels a sort of devotion for her. And so begins a series of visits to rich spinsters and widows in order to seduce and rob them, all organized by Coral who even kills savagely to preserve her love for Nico. The trap slowly closes around the two bloody lovers.
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Production and distribution (4)
- Co-production : mk2 films
- Foreign production companies : Wanda Films, RTVE / Radio Televisión Española, IMCINE - Instituto Mexicano de Cinema, Ivania Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : mk2 films
- French distribution : MKL Distribution
Full credits (9)
- Screenwriter : Paz Alicia Garciadiego
- Director of Photography : Guillermo Granillo
- Music Composer : David Mansfield
- Editor : Rafael Castanedo
- Sound recordists : Carlos Faruolo, Antonio Betancourt
- Costume designer : Monica Neumaier
- Co-producer : Marin Karmitz
- Production Manager : Yvon Crenn
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Psychological drama
- Production language : Spanish
- Coproducer countries : Mexico, Spain, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Mexico, Spain, France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 29/01/1997
- Runtime : 1 h 54 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 89.687
- Visa issue date : 07/11/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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“(...) It’s an intensely romantic story experience by atypical, mediocre, foolish and vulnerable characters. Their tale is also the revenge of the humiliated and offended against life and society. Their love is a craving for power. Alone, they are weak and crushed: together, they form a single being, strong and capable of winning (...)”.
(Arturo Ripstein, from an interview with Marie-Noëlle Tranchant, Le Figaro.)
