Casa América and Wanda Vision exhibit, exclusively, at the Box Office of the Weekend the restored copy and the new cut of the director of Profundo carmesí (Deep Crimson) (1996), one of the most important Mexican films directed by filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego.
Profundo carmesí had its world premiere at the Venice Biennale where it won the Golden Osella for best screenplay (Paz Alicia Garciadiego), for best scenery (Macarena Folache, Marisa Pecanins), and for best music (David Mansfield). He has also received numerous awards such as the Coral Grand Prize for Best Film and Best Director at the Havana Festival, Cuba (1996). In 2023 Deep Crimson returned to the Venice Film Festival, in the Venice Classics section.
Played by Daniel Giménez Cacho, Regina Orozco, Marisa Paredes, Patricia Reyes Spíndola and Julieta Egurrola, among others, this film tells how in Mexico of 1949, Coral Fabre, a terminally ill nurse who struggles to bring forward her two children, dreams of the image of Charles Boyer. In the heart of one of the magazines he usually reads, he finds an ad by a certain Nicolás Estrella who boasts of his resemblance to the popular French actor and who presents himself as a Spanish gentleman in search of a sentimental relationship. Coral decides to write…
The sessions will take place on Fridays and Saturdays from 21 June to 20 July at 7 pm in the Iberia room of Casa América.
