Bleak Street's reviews
Media reviews
La Razón
"It's pure Ripstein, a sordid, bizarre and hostile not suitable for delicate sensibilities melodrama."
Fotogramas
"A magnetic, raw and lively immersion in a proud mendicant Mexico."
El Mundo
"Arturo Ripstein manufactures a perfect summary of Buñuel's cinema in 'La calle de la amargura' (...) The result is as revealing as hurtful, as raw as profoundly human."
El País
"The film is a beautiful and lewd catalog, unbalanced and caught, stark and lustful, of Mexican cinema."
Variety
"A slow, moody spiraling about the hopes and everyday problems of a handful of characters (...) This group portrait carnival could easily be mistaken for a lost Fellini project"
The Hollywood Reporter
"As stylized as a photograph of Salgado (...) Ripstein struggles here to turn your two-dimensional strange collection of characters on real people"
Cinemanía
"Ripstein returns to gritty melodrama (...) The problem is not so much its structure as the feeling it leaves of a script that lacks strength and stays in the purely anecdotal."