Legendary Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein’s latest film is a shimmering black and white and twisted valentine to love and to its more intense cousin, l’amour fou. Revolving around an idiosyncratic old couple, Beatriz and the Old Man, Devil unfolds as a surprising portrait of how time’s passage affects human desire in general, and this couple’s relationship in particular. While the Old Man, a retired homeopathic pharmacist, drifts around their couple’s Mexico City home grumbling about Beatriz when not paying secret visits to his mistress, Beatriz decides to take private tango lessons and realize her own carnal desires by pursuing her dance partner, a much younger man. Their now adult children long gone, the only person to watch over this strange, relentlessly combative elderly couple is their young maid, Dinorah, who will eventually decide to take action to change things. Arturo Ripstein and screenwriter Paz Garcíadiego’s latest daring cinematic collaboration is a frank exploration of sex, love, and everything that lies in between.