The Reasons of the Heart

Las razones del corazón

Mexico, Spain

2011

119 Min

Black and White

1.85:1

Spanish

Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
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PROD Roberto Fiesco, José María Morales

SCR Paz Alicia Garciadiego, Gustave Flaubert

CAST Arcelia Ramírez, Vladimir Cruz, Plutarco Haza, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alejandro Suárez, Pilar Padilla, Paola Arroyo, Carlos Chávez, Eligio Meléndez, Marta Aura, Horacio Garcia Rojas, Harold Torres, Piedad Montero, Norma Pablo

MUSIC David Mansfield

San Sebastián (Competition), Abu Dhabi (Narrative Feature Competition), Mar del Plata (Panorama), Istanbul (Challenging the Years)

Synopsis

Las razones del corazón (The Reasons of the Heart) is the latest work from Mexico’s Arturo Ripstein, who this time round brings us a free and personal adaptation of the last chapters of Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary. –San Sebastián International Film Festival

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.