Life Sentence
Cadena perpetua
Mexico
1979
94 Min
Color
Spanish
Synopsis
Alfaro Javier Lira, aka “Tarzan”, rules over the prostitutes of Mexico City. His quiet life is disturbed by the death of a prostitute and he is sent to jail on the Marias Islands. He injures a warden, Pantoza, during a drinking session. Later, when Tarzan goes back to the city, he gets married and starts working in an insurance company. But one day, he is recognised by a policeman who knows all about his past and starts blackmailing him… "With Cadena Perpetua, Arturo Ripstein asserts his reputation as one of the rare Mexican film-makers who gave cinema the best of his art. —filmaffinity
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Arturo Ripstein
Arturo Ripstein y Rosen (born December 13, 1943 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director who got his break into movies working as an uncredited assistant director for Luis Buñuel. In 1965, he directed his first feature, Tiempo de Morir. Written by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, in which he began a tradition of making independent films written by high-profile Latin-American authors.
Many of his films are shot in tawdry interiors, with bleak brown color schemes, and seedy pathetic characters who manage to achieve a hint of pathos and dignity.Wall
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