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| Director: Arturo Ripstein
Actors: Roberto Cobo, Fernando Soler, Lucha Villa, Ana Martin, Gonzalo Vega
Studio: World Artists
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 65962
Format: Color, Dubbed, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: Spanish (Original Language), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 110 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6304466323
UPC: 723339111734
EAN: 9786304466322
ASIN: 6304466323
Theatrical Release Date: 1977
Release Date: April 10, 2001
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 A great treasure marred by low-budget constraints July 31, 2005
L. S. Slaughter (Chapel Hill, NC)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Any fan of arthouse Mexican films or the deeper of the gay-themed genre must own this just for Robert Cobo's great portrait of La Manuela, a down-and-out transvestite in rural Mexico putting up with machismo and hypocripsy in Latin culture. It's a brutal film, at turns touching, always incisive. Man, films have gotten increasingly stupid and shallow since this gem appeared. One can also learn about the life and conditions of rural Mexico -- they're tough, in case you haven't been there. Now try being a drag queen with a daughter and a bunch of horny, frustrated machos making your life worse. As a reviewer herein notes, the film is fair: it makes known that it's the social forces that repress and steer people into violence. The treatment of all characters is fair.
See this oddball, brave flick.
 transvestites can't have children June 23, 2000
david england (london,england)
1 out of 58 found this review helpful
transvestites are impotent(with women) so they can't impregnate a woman to have children.
The Dreams of Whores November 1, 2008
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
"The Place Without Limits"
The Dreams of Whores
Amos Lassen
"The Place without Limits" deals with greed, family honor, machismo, homophobia and the dreams of whores in a Mexican town. Don Alejo is rich and getting old and is ready to sell the town. He owns everything in the town but one whorehouse which is owned by Manuelita and his daughter, Japonesita. Manuelita is a gay and aging cross dresser who entertains as a flamenco dancer and he wants to sell and leave but his daughter wants to stay. Enter Pancho who makes things even more complicated because he has a hot temper and he manages to break the hold that Alejo has on Manuelita.
This is not a new film but it is new to DVD. Originally made in 1978, it was filmed at a time when no one in Mexico was dealing with gay themes. What makes the film so interesting is the way it critiques machismo and culture. Manuelita (Roberto Cobo) does not want to be a man because being a man means being brutal. Pancho represents all that is wrong with Mexican men who are obsessed with manliness--they are supposed to be violent and control other people. Pancho appears somewhat sad because he is attracted to Manuelita but cannot express his feelings. Manuelita, on the other hand, I very honest and open about who he is and does not care if others make fun of him. Don Alejo is the old fashioned town patriarch with flaws, but he is not threatened by anyone.
Director Arturo Ripstein gives us a creative film which has a slightly unfinished look as it tears down the myths of Mexican machismo. It's a film that gets better with repeated viewings.
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