Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein

出生 : 1943-12-13, Mexico City, Mexico

略歴

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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V.O. Sacerdote
Devil Between the Legs
Director
Mexico City. Every day, Beatriz is insulted and humiliated by her jealous husband, but she does not flee his side because they have created a codependency and, at least for her, she would not conceive of her life any other way: by dint of feeling humiliated, she feels desired and desirable.
The Queen of Spain
Sam Spiegelman
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to The Girl of Your Dreams, 1998.)
Signos de vida y rebeldía
Producer
Documentary following Gloria Contreras, a dancer, choreographer and pedagogue, as she manages her own dance company.
Internet Junkie
Many stories happen simultaneously through Internet. In the real world, people are lonely, isolated, desperate for finding love, friendship and tenderness. They project themselves as superheroes, with infinity of friends and hypersex. They live asphyxiated in front of their machines, unable to live with the people that surround them, exasperated for finding a pinch of love in the fantasy of the net. Outside the virtual world, they do not exist.
Bleak Street
Editor
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
Bleak Street
Director
Two wrestlers decide to go to a hotel in order to meet two prostitutes.
The Reasons of the Heart
Director
In a reinterpretation of Madame Bovary set on contemporary Mexico City, Emilia, a middle class housewife, tries to deal with the monotony of her life. One day, she loses the two things which makes everything beareable: her lover and her credit card.
Crazy Carnival
Director
Residents of a bordello scurry to put together their outfits for an annual carnival.
Los héroes y el tiempo
Director
Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Mi gran noche
Writer
Mi gran noche
Director
The Virgin of Lust
Director
In Vera Cruz in the 1940s, Nacho, an Indian, waits tables at Don Lázaro's café at Hotel Ofélia. He falls for Lola, an opium-addicted, alcoholic whore who's hopelessly in love with Gardenia Wilson, a masked wrestler who slept with her once but knows she's unbalanced. Don Lázaro warns Nacho about Lola, and Nacho knows his love will be unrequited, but he'll do anything, regardless of how degrading, to be near her. Lola, for her part, can be sadistic. Republican exiles who are regulars at the café encourage Lola's desire to assassinate Franco. Nacho in turn mixes this political mirage with his fascination with the plot of "The Mikado." Where do fantasies and obsessions lead?
Arturo Ripstein habla de Luis Buñuel
Himself
The Ruination of Men
Director
A woman seeks help from one of her bigamous husband's killers to transport his corpse back to her home.
Such is Life
Director
After her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Julia plans her revenge with the help of her grandmother.
No One Writes to the Colonel
Director
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
Self
A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
Divine
Director
"La Nueva Jerusalem" is a small community of believers lead by Papá Basilio and Mamá Dorita. They're waiting for the second coming of Christ, so they've abandoned the world, searching for a new spiritual life. Mamá Dorita sees in young Tomasa the signals of the chosen one. The young girl will be the new leader in "La Nueva Jerusalem".
Deep Crimson
Director
Driven by desire and desperate for self-love, Coral and Nicolás will abandon their past lives in a journey surrounded by murder.
The Queen of the Night
Director
The legendary life of Mexican singer Lucha Reyes is the basis of this fictionalized biography ( or as director Arturo Ripstein puts it "an imaginary biography"). Lucha Reyes was an unconventional, and sexually liberated woman, most famous for her "cancion ranchera" style singing. Her story begins in 1939, where at 33 she still lived at home with her mother, Dona Victora, the madame of a renowned Mexico City whorehouse. Lucha marries the liberal Pedro Calderon and then buys a beggar's daughter. She becomes the mother to this child, Luzma. Lucha craves lasting love like junkies crave heroin. But for her loyal daughter, she never finds it and in the end no one can help her.
The Beginning and the End
Producer
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
The Beginning and the End
Director
The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father's death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
La mujer del puerto
Director
Perla, a prostitute and the star in a miserable cabaret in the docks, falls in love with a sailor without knowing that he is her brother. Tomasa, Perla's mother, tries to prevent this incestuous relationship at all costs, but fails to do so. Set in a sordid environment, the director makes no concessions in this tragic love affair, which is narrated from three different points of view.
Love Lies
Director
Set in Mexico City, Mentiras Piadosas is the doomed love story of Clara and Israel. She is a health inspector and he is an herb merchant, who is obsessed with the construction of an enormous model of the ancient city of Tenochtitlan. They both decide to leave their respective partners to live together, however, jealousy, blackmail and guilt will become unbreakable patterns destroying their tragic relationship
The Realm of Fortune
Director
Poor Dionisio finds himself as recipient of the good fortune, but soon he forgets that everything that goes up also has to go down, and that in the depressing nothingness of his town it is easy to die.
El otro
Director
A novelist travels to the country to learn the problems of a friend's shy son and runs into an intruder.
The African Lover
A singer is on the run from the law and a criminal gang. She takes refuge at a hotel where she finally reveals a complex story of betrayal and revenge to the investigating detective.
Trail of Death
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Trail of Death
Story
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
Trail of Death
Director
Thriller directed by Arturo Ripstein.
La seducción
Writer
La seducción
Director
Adriana del Rio, actriz
Self
The Flight of the Stork
An erotic model has three lovers, one of them is the father of her child. Which of the three will be?
Aunt Alejandra
Director
The arrival of Aunt Alejandra triggers a series of nightmarish events that will put the life of a family at mysterious risk.
Life Sentence
Writer
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
Life Sentence
Director
After being released from jail, "Tarzan" Lira seeks to rebuild his life as a bank employee. Unfortunately, it might not be as easy as he thinks.
The Illegal
Director
Deceived over and over again by the whole world, a woman does not want to give up in the face of life's adversities.
The Place Without Limits
Writer
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
The Place Without Limits
Director
Father and daughter compete for the same passion in a ruthless place where kindness mixes with hate.
Lecumberri
Director
Documentary about a Mexico City prison, notorious for holding political prisoners and for civil rights abuses committed there.
The Black Widow
Director
Intrigues and secrets come together because of a woman, who has the protection of the parish priest.
Cuartelazo
Embajador
Narration of one of the bloodiest episodes of the Mexican national history, The Tragic Ten, beginning when General Victoriano Huerta sent to kill President Francisco I. Madero, Vice President José María Pino Suárez and Senator Belisario Dominguez. The film recreates the moment of the execution at the hands of Huerta and his accomplices Bernardo Reyes, Félix Díaz and Manuel Mondragón.
Foxtrot
Screenplay
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
Foxtrot
Director
A Romanian aristocrat retreats to a desert isle with his wife and servants on the eve of World War II.
The Holy Inquisition
Writer
A Jewish family suffers persecution and suffering in the 16th century when they are accused of practicing witchcraft.
The Holy Inquisition
Director
A Jewish family suffers persecution and suffering in the 16th century when they are accused of practicing witchcraft.
Cinco mil dolares de recompensa
Writer
A gunfighter is appointed sheriff of a town that is terrorized by a gang of criminals.
Castle of Purity
Writer
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
Castle of Purity
Director
A disciplined and sexually driven man forces his family to stay isolated in their home in order to protect them from the “evil nature” of human beings.
The Castaway on the Street of Providence
Director
Friends of Luis Buñuel discuss the director while Buñuel mixes drinks and entertains friends in his home.
Whoever is Responsible
Writer
Documentary about the founding of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl on the outskirts of Mexico City in the sixties.
La belleza
Director
Crimen
Director
Exorcismos
Director
Autobiografía
Director
Memories of the Future
Writer
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Memories of the Future
Director
A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Familiarities
Betty is visited by a strange salesman the day she is going away on a trip. He stays in the house as a series of bizarre events occur with his arrival.
The Children's Hour
Director
The haunting story of a child left in the care of a clown.
The Specter's Road
Matilde's Son
A group of people, including Capulina and Viruta, head towards the city by train. A heavy storm interrupts their journey and now they must take a haunted path to reach they city. (English Subtitled)
Dangerous Game
Director
Two dark-comedy stories involving blackmail, murder and love triangles in Rio de Janeiro
Time to Die
Director
A man comes home after serving 18 years in jail for murder in this routine western. Although the man killed in self defense, rumors in town circulated that he murdered the victim in cold blood. The ex-con wants to get his life together, but the two sons of the slain man are gunning for the man who killed their father.
There Are No Thieves in This Village
When a young boy steals billiard balls from a local saloon, a stranger is charged with the crime. The local layabouts find there is no reason to hang out at the bar without being able to shoot pool, and the boy entertains thoughts of forming a gang to steal more billiard balls in hopes of making money.
Los novios de mis hijas
Mama has four daughters in their late teens. some of them might be more interested in careers than husbands, but she's hoping she'll find a highly suitable young man for each of them. If there are any out there that meet her standards.
The Exterminating Angel
Assistant Director
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room.