'Bleak Street' is a grim but empathetic look at Mexico City's demimonde

Veteran Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Alicia Garcíadiego turn a bizarre true-crime story into an arty portrait of decadence and despair in the aptly named “Bleak Street.” The grubby melodrama should appeal to adventurous moviegoers — and to the director’s small-but-fervent...