Arturo Ripstein

Arturo Ripstein was born in Mexico City on 13 December 1943, the son of the producer Alfredo Ripstein. Self-taught, he began frequenting Luis Buñuel in 1961 and assisted him on a shoot. At twenty-one, he directed his first feature film, from a screenplay by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes. From 1985, the screenwriter Paz Alicia Garciadiego, his partner, wrote most of his films. He directed about thirty-five of them, and in 1997 received the National Prize for Arts and Sciences.

In the catalogue 1

• Feature filmThe Place Without LimitsEl lugar sin límitesArturo Ripstein · 1978Cinema