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May 10, 1973 · The Castle of Purity: Directed by Arturo Ripstein. With Claudio Brook, Rita Macedo, Arturo Beristáin, Diana Bracho. The story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
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- Drama
- Arturo Ripstein
- 1973-05-10
The Castle of Purity was the final film for two legendary veterans of the crew. Set designer Manuel Fontanals had worked with names like, Gabriele D'Annunzio (illustrating the first edition of 'Dreams of the Seasons'), Miguel M. Delgado, Roberto Gavaldón, Gilberto Martínez Solares, and the stage plays of García Lorca. Ripstein said, "It was ...
Critics reviews. Determined to protect his loved ones from the evils of the world, Gabriel keeps them locked up at home, where his wife Beatriz and their children help run the family business—making rat poison. As they grow older, the kids begin to challenge their father’s version of life beyond the “castle” walls.
Determined to protect his loved ones from the evils of the world, Gabriel keeps them locked up at home, where his wife Beatriz and their children help run the family business—making rat poison. As they grow older, the kids begin to challenge their father’s version of life beyond the “castle” walls.
Gabriel Lima (Claudio Brook) kept his family, wife and three children, locked for 18 years in their downtown house, protecting them from a corrupt world. The children names were Utopia, Porvenir (future) and Voluntad (willpower). They worked producing rat poison, and only the father left sometimes the house, to sell the poison and bring food ...
Ripstein’s claustrophobic family drama about a controlling father—played by regular Buñuel star Claudio Brook—powerfully dismantles the nuclear family. Redolent of Dogtooth and based on an extraordinary real-life story in 1950s Mexico, this is a sordid tale of control, isolation, and rat poison!
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Review by Edgar Cochran ️ ★★★★★ 8. Before Dogtooth (2009), there was the Mexican masterpiece El Castillo de la Pureza. Gabriel Lima is a family man disgusted by humanity, a desperate individual that has the perception of all things in the world coming to an end. He decides to confine himself and his family for 18 years in a big ...
