Devil Between the Legs

Time has turned the Old Man and Beatriz into the same flesh, the same guts. They destroy and need each other: they share demons, memories, resentments. The Old Man lives on his jealousy. Beatriz lives on feeling desired and desirable. They have spent many years like that. They are intimate enemies. They live in a harmony of hate. But Dinorah, the maid, picks a side and takes matters into her own hands. Ripstein’s final film to date, this portrait of the violence of masculinity is the culmination of a long line of hideous men in Ripstein’s work. Written by his wife and longtime collaborator, Paz Alicia Garcíadiego, and shot in lustrous black and white, The Devil Between the Legs is a career-capping phantasmagoria.