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.