Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen ( born December 13, 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director, film producer and screenwriter. He began his career as an assistant to Luis Buñuel and made a name later with independent films often for templates and scripts great Latin American authors.
Life and work
Arturo Ripstein was born on December 13, 1943 in Mexico City. His father was a film director. His career in the film industry, he became assistant to the eminent director Luis Buñuel, at whose film The Exterminating Angel from 1962 he had cooperated. In 1965, Ripstein was with Tiempe de Morir his directorial debut. The screenplay for this movie was written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez. Such collaborations with the great Latin American writers were in the sequence several times. Arturo Ripstein has established itself in the Mexican film industry and continue its work under the Government José López Portillo, under which the film production was greatly reduced without major restrictions. In fact, he turned in this time two films, which are among his best. It is El lugar sin límites and La negra viuada, both created in 1977. With his films Arturo Ripstein followed no commercial interests or attempted to use a public taste, but followed his own artistic aspirations. The stories he told in the films, treated often loners and their problems. Ripstein worked so long with settings that occurred in the several actors and acted, which is in contrast to the modern fast cuts and many close-ups seemed old-fashioned. 1991 turned Ripstein in collaboration with his wife Paz Alicia Garciadiego a remake of the film La mujer del puerto from the year 1930. In the new version Andrea Palma and Domingo Soler played the leading roles in the production of a small independent American film company was involved. The film was considered difficult marketable, however, is considered a possible breakthrough of the Mexican film in the international arthouse cinema. However, these hopes could the film not meet, but was brought primarily to second-class film festivals. the film was perceived as dark and pessimistic about was cited as justification for its low audience appeal. His last film so far turned Ripstein El carnaval de Sodoma in 2006.