Arturo Ripstein
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- December 13, 1943 (age 82)
- Birthplace
- Mexico City, Mexico
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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Filmography
Tiempo de Correr
Movie · Director
Devil Between the Legs
Movie · Director
Bleak Street
Movie · Director
The Reasons of the Heart
Movie · Director
Crazy Carnival
Movie · Director
Los héroes y el tiempo
Movie · Director
Mi gran noche
Movie · Director
The Virgin of Lust
Movie · Director
Such is Life
Movie · Director
The Ruination of Men
Movie · Director
No One Writes to the Colonel
Movie · Director
Divine
Movie · Director
Deep Crimson
Movie · Director
Woman of the Port
Movie · Director
The Beginning and the End
Movie · Director
The Queen of the Night
Movie · Director
Triángulo
TV · Director · 80 eps
La sonrisa del Diablo
TV · Director · 115 eps
Love Lies
Movie · Director
Simplemente Maria
TV · Director · 150 eps
Dulce Desafío
TV · Director · 100 eps
The Realm of Fortune
Movie · Director
El otro
Movie · Director
The Black Widow
Movie · Director
Trail of Death
Movie · Director
Seduction
Movie · Director
Aunt Alejandra
Movie · Director
Life Sentence
Movie · Director
The Illegal
Movie · Director
The Place Without Limits
Movie · Director
Lecumberri, the Dark Palace
Movie · Director
The Drunkard
Movie · Director
Foxtrot
Movie · Director
The Holy Inquisition
Movie · Director
La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
Movie · Director
Castle of Purity
Movie · Director
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Movie · Director
La belleza
Movie · Director
Crimen
Movie · Director
Autobiografía
Movie · Director
Exorcismos
Movie · Director
The Children's Hour
Movie · Director
Memories of the Future
Movie · Director
Dangerous Game
Movie · Director
H.O.
Movie · Director
Time to Die
Movie · Director
The Exterminating Angel
Movie · Assistant Director