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The legendary director Arturo Ripstein returns to action with this bizarre true story that made headlines in Mexico in 2009: the murder of the dwarf brothers Alberto and Alejandro Jimenéz. Notorious for participating in fights around the country, the brothers were drugged by two women who wanted to rob them. However, the doses of medicine turned the robbery into murder. Under Ripstein’s obsessive direction, the sensationalist news coverage becomes a platform for study and an ironic examination of a marginalised Mexico City. Toronto Festival 2015.
Arturo Ripstein
Born in Mexico City in 1943. His first contact with cinema was at the age of 15 when he saw filming for Nazarín (1959) by Luis Buñuel, with whom he developed a tight mentor/apprentice relationship. From his celebrated filmography, highlights include The Castle of Purity (1972), Hell Without Limits (1977) e Noone Write to the Colonel (1999). He won the FIPRESCI award for Latin American Personality at the Rio Film Festival 2008.
