La calle de la amargura is a very strange creation. First off, aside from the iphones, it looks like the films produced in the 1950s--not only because it is in black and white, but also because it depicts urban life in Mexico and evokes memory of Luis Bunuel's Mexico period. The film also contains elements reminiscent of works by Pedro Almodovar and Franco Fellini. La calle de la amargura, however, is much less powerful than any of those directors' works, and seems somehow gratuitously bleak.
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