Without Limits: The Films of Arturo Ripstein

A legendary figure of Mexican cinema and protege of Luis Buñuel, Arturo Ripstein has pursued a distinguished career spanning six decades of subversive examinations of masculinity, patriarchy and the family. Widely acclaimed at home, where he’s been nominated nine times for the Ariel award (Mexican equivalent of the Oscars), as well as abroad, with films selected by Cannes, Venice, and Sundance, Ripstein and his work remain too little known in the US. Frequently working in collaboration with his wife and longtime screenwriter Paz Alicia Garcíadiego, the films in this program—many in recent restorations by IMCINE in Mexico City—span his entire career, highlighting his work across genres from westerns and melodramas to crime films. A key influence on the work of Guillermo del Toro and Yorgos Lanthimos, Ripstein’s stylized, haunting, difficult-to-see films are not to be missed on the big screen.