A dancer dreams of devils while her gigolo lover explodes into Parisian noir chaos.
The french dancer America is in a hotel in Paris with her lover. He goes out to buy cigarettes and she imagines that he travels to Mexico, where he makes a cabaret number dancing with a mannequin that represents the devil. It is related to the gigolo Jimmy, who prostitutes and explodes, and wanders around the city getting involved in a strange plot with some gangsters.
Cinematography
Dreamy Mexico sequences vs. grimy Paris streets.
Acting
Richard Bohringer's weary, magnetic presence.
Director
Ariel Zúñiga
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is one of only two feature films directed by Ariel Zúñiga, who primarily worked in Mexican television.
The film belongs to a bizarre 1980s wave of Mexican-French co-productions that grafted Latin American magical realism onto European exploitation aesthetics.
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