
Woman of the Port
(La mujer del puerto)
Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego in Person
$12 Special Event Tickets
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Arturo Ripstein.
With Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alejandro Parodi, Evangelina Sosa.
Mexico, 1991, DCP, color, 104 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.
DCP source: Cineteca Nacional
With Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alejandro Parodi, Evangelina Sosa.
Mexico, 1991, DCP, color, 104 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.
DCP source: Cineteca Nacional
Ripstein and Garcíadiego embraced a bold modernist approach to their adaptation of a Guy de Maupassant short story of a sailor and a prostitute by offering three different tellings of the same tale, each from a different character’s point of view. Similar to their other collaborations, Woman of the Port uses its multiple layers to build meaning cumulatively, offering a fractured composite sense of place and tone of wistful regret, while also cutting a richly textured cross-section across the narrative grain.