Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein
Born	Arturo Ripstein y Rosen Mexico City, Mexico
Occupation	Film director, producer and screenwriter
Years active	1943 - present

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director.

Life and career

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.

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".^[1] 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".^[2] Deep Crimson, according to the New York Times,^[3] 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."

Filmography

• The castle of purity (1973)
• The Holy Office (1974)
• La Viuda Negra (1977)
• The place without limits (El lugar sin límites) (1978)
• La Tía Alejandra (1979)
• Woman of the Port (1991)
• The Queen of the Night (1994)
• Deep Crimson (Profundo Carmesi) (1996)
• El evangelio de las maravillas (1998)
• No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
• Such Is Life (2000)

References

1. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=GosHz-SKVR4C&pg=PA150&dq=%22arturo+ripstein%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
2. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/201709/Asi-es-la-vida-/overview
3. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C02E3DD103DF935A35753C1A961958260

External links

• Arturo Ripstein at the Internet Movie Database
• Yahoo Biography.
• HWK Biography.
• ArturoRipstein.com.

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Name	Ripstein, Arturo
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Date of birth	December 13, 1943
Place of birth	Mexico City, Mexico
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