Deep Crimson

Deep Crimson (Spanish: Profundo Carmesí) is a 1996 Mexican crime film directed by Arturo Ripstein, written by Paz Alicia Garciadiego and starring Regina Orozco and Daniel Giménez Cacho. Like The Honeymoon Killers before it, the film is a dramatization of the story of "Lonely Hearts Killers", Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who committed a string of murders of women in the 1940s.

Cast

• Regina Orozco as Coral Fabre
• Daniel Giménez Cacho as Nicolás Estrella
• Sherlyn as Teresa
• Giovani Florido as Carlitos (as Giovanni Florido)
• Fernando Soler Palavicini as Don Dimas (as Fernando Soler P.)
• Patricia Reyes Spíndola as Sra. Ruelas
• Alexandra Vicencio as Imelda (as Alexandra Vincenzio)
• Julieta Egurrola as Juanita Norton
• Marisa Paredes as Irene Gallardo
• Rosa Furman as Sara Silberman

Reception

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 80% based on 10 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 6.6/10.

Awards and honors

The film won eight Ariel Awards, including Best Actor and Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Ariel. In addition, it was awarded Honorable Mention in the Latin American Cinema category at Sundance and won three Golden Osellas at the Venice Film Festival. It was Mexico's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but it failed to earn a nomination.

See also

• The Honeymoon Killers, a 1969 film about the same events
• Lonely Hearts, a 2006 film about the same events
• Alleluia, a 2014 film about the same events
• List of submissions to the 70th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Mexican submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

• Deep Crimson at IMDb
• Deep Crimson at AllMovie
• Deep Crimson at the TCM Movie Database
• Deep Crimson at Rotten Tomatoes

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