Arturo Ripstein
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."
Personal Details
Also Known As
Movies (47)
Memoria de Los Olvidados
as Narrator (voice)
2025
Where Is Juan Moctezuma?
as Self
2025
Jugaremos en el bosque
as Don Francisco (Patriarca)
2024
Recuerdo De Mi Presentación
as V.O. Sacerdote
2020
Devil Between the Legs
Director (Directing)
2019
One Hundred Years with Juan Rulfo
as Self
2017
The Queen of Spain
as Sam Spiegelman
2016
Signos de vida y rebeldía
Producer (Production)
2016
Bleak Street
Director (Directing)
2015
Internet Junkie
as Roberto
2015
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
as Self
2015
The Reasons of the Heart
Director (Directing)
2011
Crazy Carnival
Director (Directing)
2006
Los héroes y el tiempo
Director (Directing)
2005
Mi gran noche
Writer (Writing)
2004
The Virgin of Lust
Director (Directing)
2002
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
as Himself
2002
Such is Life
Director (Directing)
2001
The Ruination of Men
Director (Directing)
2000
Speaking of Buñuel
as Self
2000
No One Writes to the Colonel
Director (Directing)
1999
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
as Self
1999
Divine
Director (Directing)
1998
Deep Crimson
Director (Directing)
1996
La mujer del puerto
Director (Directing)
1996
The Queen of the Night
Director (Directing)
1994
The Beginning and the End
Producer (Production)
1994
Love Lies
Director (Directing)
1989
The Realm of Fortune
Director (Directing)
1986
El otro
Director (Directing)
1986
The African Lover
1985
The Black Widow
Director (Directing)
1983
Seduction
Director (Directing)
1981
Trail of Death
1981
Aunt Alejandra
Director (Directing)
1980
Adriana del Rio, actriz
as Self
1979
The Flight of the Stork
as Cliente banco
1979
Life Sentence
Director (Directing)
1979
The Illegal
Director (Directing)
1979
The Place without Limits
Director (Directing)
1978
Lecumberri
Director (Directing)
1977
Cuartelazo
as Embajador
1977
Foxtrot
Director (Directing)
1976
El borracho
Director (Directing)
1976
The Holy Inquisition
Director (Directing)
1974
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Writer (Writing)
1974
La causa (Tres preguntas a Chávez)
Director (Directing)
1974
