Arturo Ripstein

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 highprofile LatinAmerican 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 Ripsteins films especially the earlier ones highlighted characters beset by futile compulsions to escape theirdestinies 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 antiromantic portrait of an obese nurse and a seedy smalltime gigolo whose bungling scheme to swindle a succession of lonely women out of their life savings turns into a killing spree