Arturo Ripstein
Directing
Born 1943-12-13
Mexico City, Mexico
70 credits
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Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943) is a Mexican film director.
Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. His 1981 film Seduction was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1989 film Love Lies was entered into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 Ripstein won the National Prize of Arts and Sciences, the second filmmaker after Buñuel to do so. Some of Ripstein's films, especially the earlier ones, "highlighted characters beset by futile compulsions to escape [their]destinies". Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity. Asi Es la Vida, according to Jonathan Crow, "boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices". Deep Crimson, according to the New York Times, is "a ferociously anti-romantic portrait of an obese nurse and a seedy small-time gigolo whose bungling scheme to swindle a succession of lonely women out of their life savings turns into a killing spree."
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Filmography
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Directing
39 credits
Simplemente Maria
Dulce Desafío
Triángulo
La sonrisa del Diablo
Life Sentence
Deep Crimson
The Illegal
Castle of Purity
No One Writes to the Colonel
Foxtrot
The Drunkard
H.O.
The Virgin of Lust
Trail of Death
Dangerous Game
The Children's Hour
Seduction
Crimen
Aunt Alejandra
The Place Without Limits
Exorcismos
Divine
La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
The Beginning and the End
The Queen of the Night
The Realm of Fortune
Devil Between the Legs
Bleak Street
Love Lies
Time to Die
The Black Widow
La belleza
Such is Life
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
Memories of the Future
The Ruination of Men
The Reasons of the Heart
Los héroes y el tiempo
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Writing
14 credits
Triángulo
Life Sentence
Castle of Purity
Foxtrot
The Drunkard
Trail of Death
The Children's Hour
Seduction
The Place Without Limits
Whoever is Responsible
La belleza
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
Memories of the Future
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Acting
13 credits
The Queen of Spain
Internet Junkie
Jugaremos en el bosque
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
The Specter's Road
Speaking of Buñuel
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Cuartelazo
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Other credits
6 credits
The Exterminating Angel
The African Lover
Familiarities
There Are No Thieves in This Village
Bleak Street
Los novios de mis hijas
Producing
2 credits
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