Dialogue between the screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego and the film director Arturo Ripstein

19th June, 2009 - Publicado por admin -

For the first time, the couple formed by the screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego and the Mexican director Arturo Ripstein is sitting down together to speak in public about their films, on Friday the 19th at 19:30 in the Teatro Isidoro Márquez de CajaGRANADA (Avda de la Ciencia, 2).

Arturo Ripstein was born in Mexico in 1943. A renowned filmmaker and screenwriter, his relationship with the film world is closely tied to his family history: his father was a famous producer. In 1962, Ripstein worked as assistant director on Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel. In 1972, he wrote the screenplay for Jorge Fons’ Cinco mil dólares de recompensa. In this period of great activity, Ripstein, along with Felipe Cazals, Pedro F. Miret, Tomás Pérez Turrent and Rafael Castanedo, founded the company, Cine Independiente de México, in order to make several experimental short films. In 1965, he directed his first work, Tiempo de morir [Time to Die], with a screenplay by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, producing a film markedly influenced by the North American western.
In 1975, he directed his first international film, Foxtrot, which was followed by a series of very noteworthy adaptations, culminating in La seducción [Seduction] in 1979. During the 1970s, Ripstein grew stronger as a director and began one of the most productive stages of his career, which included some of the most important works in modern Mexican film: El castillo de la pureza [Castle of Purity], El lugar sin límites [The Place without Limits] and Cadena perpetua.
In 1985, he directed El imperio de la fortuna [The Realm of Fortune], an adaptation of a story by Juan Rulfo, which brought him international success. His subsequent filmography is notable for its collaboration with the writer Paz Alicia Garciadiego, which has produced works like Principio y fin [The Beginning and the End], winner of the Concha de Oro at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in 1993 and Profundo Carmesí [Deep Crimson], which won the Osella d’oro at the Venice Film Festival in 1996. They have been making films for more than twenty years together which include El imperio de la fortuna (1986), Mentiras piadosas [Love Lies] (1987), Profundo Carmesí, El evangelio de las maravillas [Divine] (1998), El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No One Writes to the Colonel] (1999) (based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez) and La virgen de la lujuria [The Virgin of Lust] (2002).