The candlelit stateliness of Gothic noir meets the dank filth of prison noir in Daniel Tinayre’s Deshonra (US: Dishonor) which opens with a desperate pregnant woman, cloaked in nighttime, pummeled by rain, smelling of the sewer through which she just tunneled, holding a wealthy man at gunpoint on his front steps. Also featuring one of the bleakest endings in the noir cycle, the film quickly dives into a flashback structure to narrate how this woman, Flora Maria Peralta (Fanny Navarro), worked as nurse to the jealous, wheelchair-bound Isabel (Tita Merello), wife of wealthy architect Carlos Dimant (George Rigaud), how she was framed and convicted for the disabled shrew’s untimely death by elevator shaft, and how she befriended Adela (Aída Luz) and lesbian Roberta (Golde Flami) in prison while plotting her escape. (The female-on-female violence — mostly by hauling off and smacking faces at full strength — is somewhat shocking and borderline comical at times.)  Thrilling scenes abound, like an inmate’s death by pneumonia at the hands of fire hose wielding guards or Isabel’s’s onerous trip upstairs, from bed to wheelchair to crashed on the floor, to confirm her worst suspicions about Carlos.