Director

Arturo Ripstein

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Directed movies: 38Directed series: 4All crew credits: 47

TMDB ID: 532227

IMDb ID: nm0728149

Known for: Directing

Born: December 13, 1943

Age: 82

Place of birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1962 - 2025

Years active: 64

Average TMDB rating: 6.77

Wikidata: Q715461

Also known as

Arturo Ripstein Rosen • 아르투로 립스테인 • 아르투로 립스타인

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Director (41)Assistant Director (1)Producer (2)Writer (2)Story (1)

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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."