The Dryden will screen La calle de la amargura (Bleak Street, Arturo Ripstein, Mexico/Spain 2015, 99 min., DCP, Spanish w/subtitles).

In the early morning hours, two elderly prostitutes go back to their hovels. They are not tired from working; they are tired of not working. One has problems at home with her teenage daughter and cross-dressing husband. The other lives with her invalid mother and loneliness. But that night, they have a date to celebrate the victory in the ring of two wrestlers, twin little people wearing masks. At the hourly hotel, in order to rob the men of their earnings, they drug them with eye drops.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2016-Aug-15]