Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein y Rosen(born December 13, 1943) is aMexicanfilm director. Ripstein got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director forLuis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature,Tiempo de Morir. Written byCarlos FuentesandGabriel García Márquez, it began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors. His 1981 filmSeductionwas entered into the12th Moscow International Film Festival.His 1989 filmLove Lieswas entered into the16th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1997 Ripstein won theNational 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.".