Born in Mexico City in 1943, Arturo Ripstein began as an assistant to Luis Buñuel and made Tiempo de morir (1965) at twenty-one. He is known for bleak melodramas, often written with Paz Alicia Garciadiego: The Castle of Purity (1973), The Place Without Limits (1978), Deep Crimson (1996), Such Is Life (2000) and Bleak Street (2015). Several have been in competition at major festivals.
Filmography
- Tiempo de morir (1965)
- The Castle of Purity (1973)
- The Place Without Limits (1978)
- Cadena perpetua (1978)
- El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
- Principio y fin (1993)
- Deep Crimson (1996)
- No One Writes to the Colonel (1999)
- Such Is Life (2000)
- Bleak Street (2015)