Such Is Life (2000)
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60% of critics liked it
(5 reviews) -
27% want to see it
(54 ratings)
Using digital video and a skeleton crew, master filmmaker Arturo Ripstein boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices. The film focuses on Julia (Arcelia Ramirez) who works as an homeopathic doctor. Lovelorn and embittered, she learns… More Using digital video and a skeleton crew, master filmmaker Arturo Ripstein boldly reworks the ancient Greek drama Medea, employing a dizzying array of flashbacks and Brechtian devices. The film focuses on Julia (Arcelia Ramirez) who works as an homeopathic doctor. Lovelorn and embittered, she learns that her husband, a failed boxer named Nicolas, has dumped her in favor of a younger woman, Raquel (Francesca Guillen), the daughter of local slumlord La Marrana (Ernesto Yanez). To make matters worse, Nicolas wants to take the kids, while at the same time La Marrana evicts Julia from her modest abode. Julia's growing thirst for vengeance is furthered by her godmother who believes that all men should be castrated. This film was screened at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Directed By
- Arturo Ripstein
- Written By
- Paz Alicia Garcíadiego
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
Critic Reviews
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Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Worthwhile, but more interesting than good.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The overriding fault for this art-house film was that it is not poetic.
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Arthur Lazere, culturevulture.net
The film becomes too much of a one-note rant, ultimately shutting down the viewer's empathy rather than engaging it.
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Jorge Avila Andrade, Moviola
Mantiene la característica ripsteniana de presentar un mundo cruel y desesperanzado, en el que viven las clases más marginadas de nuestra sociedad.
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Cast
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Arcelia Ramirez
as Julia
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Luis Felipe Tovar
as Nicolas
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Patricia Reyes Spíndola
as Adela The Godmother
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Ernesto Yáñez
as La Marrana
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Martha Aura
as The Patient
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Alejandra Montoya
as Teenager
- Francesca Guillen
