| DIRECTOR |
Arturo Ripstein |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Paz Alicia Garciadiego |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Guillermo Granillo |
| EDITION: |
Rafael Castanelo |
| MUSIC: |
David Mansfield |
| FESTIVALS: |
Veneza, Rotterdã |
| PRODUCTION: |
Ivania Films, Wanda Films, MK2
Productions |
| WORLD SALES: |
MK2 Productions, 55 rue Travesière
- 75012 - Paris Tel: 00 33 1 4467-3000 Fax: 00 33
1 4341-3230 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Profundo Carmesí |
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Col., 114 min., 1996 |
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Born in Mexico in 1943 and having grown up
in the world of cinema owing to the activity of
the father as producer. He was assistant director
for the master Luis Buñuel in his Mexican phase
in O Anjo Exterminador and Simão do Deserto. He
first started directing at the age of 22 years
with Tiempo de Morir (64), with a script by
Gabriel Garcia Márquez. His most recent films
were La Mujer del Puerto (91), Principio y Fin
(93) and La Rena de la Noche (94).
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The passionate virtuoso of
Arturo Ripstein reaches a peak here. Warm colors, torrid
love affairs, a delightful corruptela of classic Mexican
melodrama thaat spread worldwide in the forties. This is
his speciality.The characters of the tragicomedy
vascillate between a world of dreams and sordid reality.
Disillusion and abandonment, tragic and deceived,
treachery and seduction blend with fleeting emotion and
terrible symbols such as orphanages, doubles of famous
actors and lonely hearts clubs.