Arturo Ripstein
Directing
Born: December 13, 1943 (age 82) · Mexico City, Mexico
Highest Rated
Biography
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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Movies (14)
The Queen of Spain
Sam Spiegelman
The African Lover
1985
Familiarities
1969
Jugaremos en el bosque
Don Francisco (Patriarca)
Internet Junkie
Roberto
Trail of Death
1981
There Are No Thieves in This Village
1965
Memoria de Los Olvidados
Narrator (voice)
Cuartelazo
Embajador
Los novios de mis hijas
1964
The Flight of the Stork
Cliente banco
The Specter's Road
Matilde's Son
Mariana
1968
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
V.O. Sacerdote
Self / Appearances (6)
Directing (44)
Dulce Desafío
Director
Simplemente Maria
Director
La sonrisa del Diablo
Director
The Exterminating Angel
Assistant Director
Triángulo
Director
El otro
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Life Sentence
Director
Dangerous Game
Director
Castle of Purity
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Deep Crimson
Director
The Place Without Limits
Director
H.O.
Director
The Virgin of Lust
Director
Exorcismos
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Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
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The Drunkard
Director
The Beginning and the End
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Trail of Death
Director
Foxtrot
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La belleza
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Bleak Street
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The Realm of Fortune
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No One Writes to the Colonel
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The Children's Hour
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Divine
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Time to Die
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The Queen of the Night
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Love Lies
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Devil Between the Legs
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The Castaway on the Street of Providence
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Crimen
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Autobiografía
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The Reasons of the Heart
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Seduction
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Such is Life
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Aunt Alejandra
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The Black Widow
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The Holy Inquisition
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The Illegal
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La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
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Crazy Carnival
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Memories of the Future
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The Ruination of Men
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Woman of the Port
Director
Writing (14)
Life Sentence
Screenplay
Castle of Purity
Writer
The Place Without Limits
Screenplay
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
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The Drunkard
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Trail of Death
Story
Foxtrot
Screenplay
La belleza
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The Children's Hour
Writer
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
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Whoever is Responsible
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Seduction
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The Holy Inquisition
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Memories of the Future
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