Synopsis
Devil Between the Legs (El diablo entre las piernas, 2019) is an Arturo Ripstein drama you can watch online on iFILM. In Mexico City, an elderly couple has been together so long they've fused into a single creature, sharing one memory, one set of fears, and a hatred they mistake for love.
The husband polices his wife's every glance and humiliates her like clockwork. She stays. Being degraded is the only proof she has that she's still wanted, and she can't picture any other life. Their grim balance holds for decades — until the maid steps in and starts taking sides. Ripstein shoots it in long black-and-white takes, no score, with an almost clinical frankness; Sylvia Pasquel and Daniel Giménez Cacho lead.
The patriarch of Mexican auteur cinema treats marriage here as a cage neither partner wants to leave. This is not easy viewing: slow, harsh, unflinchingly physical, aimed at anyone who loves radical Latin American and European drama. Stream Devil Between the Legs (2019) online on iFILM.
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