Bleak Street

In the early morning hours, two aged prostitutes go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not working. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and crossdressing husband. The other lives with her invalid mother and loneliness. That night, they have a date with two masked wrestlers to celebrate their victory in the ring—but when their plot to rob the men of their earnings takes a fatal turn, the women are forced to hide from the police and run away together to live, as they always have, on Bleak Street. A late-career peak, this seedy surrealist version of Mexico City is populated by characters unmistakably Ripstein.