The Realm of Fortune

El imperio de la fortuna

Mexico

1986

130 Min

Color

1.85:1

Spanish

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Paz Alicia Garciadiego, Juan Rulfo

CAST Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi, Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez, Socorro Avelar, Juan Antonio Llanes, Carlos Cardán, Loló Navarro, Edmundo Barahona, Raymundo Gómez Cruz, María Barber

MUSIC Lucía Álvarez

San Sebastián: Best Actor, Karlovy Vary, AFI FEST

Synopsis

A very poor and handicaped man, lives in a small town in Mexico with his mother. He works announcing things along the town (“The priest lost his cow, if someone sees it …”). He is very interested in the cock fightigs. One day a man gives him a looser cock, thinking to give him something to eat, but instead he takes care of the animal and it becomes a winner cock. He begins to win some money. La Caponera, a very good looking singer, erlier avoided him but now she uses her coquetry to gain some drinks. He thinks she is his talisman so she marries her when he becomes rich, taking her apart from the show-bizz, so she begins to feel very unhappy. —IMDb

Director

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.