Gabriel Ripstein

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Gabriel Ripstein
Born 1973
Occupation Film producer, director, editor, screenwriter
Years active 1999–present
Children 1
Parent(s) Arturo Ripstein, Paz Alicia Garciadiego

Gabriel Ripstein (born 1973) is a film producer, director, editor and screenwriter. An active producer since 1999, Ripstein has been involved in nine feature films, included two directed by his father, Mexican film director Arturo Ripstein. Two of his produced films had competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba and Chronic. He also wrote screenplays for the films Amor a Primera Visa, Compadres, and Busco novio para mi mujer.

In 2015, Ripstein made his directorial debut with 600 Millas, starring British actor Tim Roth and Mexican performer Kristyan Ferrer, for which he was awarded the Best First Feature Film Award at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival. The film received positive reviews and was selected to represent Mexico at the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. For his work on 600 Millas, Ripstein received five nominations for the 58th Ariel Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay, winning for Best First Feature Film.

Early life and background

Ripstein's was born in 1973 to Arturo Ripstein, a Mexican film director, and Paz Alicia Garciadiego, a screenwriter.[1][2] His grandfather was film producer Alfredo Ripstein. He has a career in economics.[1]

Career

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I'm lucky, because I was born on a movie set, it is what I have seen my whole life; I thought life were cable cords and projectors, I was lucky, but I always wanted to direct and hid it for some reason and entered the industry by the business side.

Gabriel Ripstein, ¡Hola!.[3]

Producing El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba and La Perdición de los Hombres

Ripstein debuted as a producer in 1999 with the film adaptation of the book El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba written by Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez, about a retired Colonel waiting for his pension which is 27 years late.[3][4] The same-titled film was directed by his father, Arturo Ripstein, with a screenplay written by his mother, Paz Alicia Garciadiego, and starred Mexican actors Fernando Luján and Salma Hayek, and Spanish actress Marisa Paredes.[5] The film was represented Mexico at the 72nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and competed for the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[5][6]

With a $3 million budget, El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba was a critical and box-office success. Variety reviewer Leonardo Garcia Tsao stated that the film is a "deeply moving adaptation" that confirms "Ripstein's standing as Mexico's foremost auteur".[4] The film went on to gross $83 million internationally, and at the time was the highest-grossing Latin film ever.[5] In 2000, Ripstein produced another film directed by his father and written by his mother, titled La Perdición de los Hombres, which according to Matías Meyer of Nexos magazine was released during a period where Mexico was producing very few films, and those were successful internationally both at the box office and with film critics, citing this title together with Amores Perros, Y Tu Mamá También, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Japón, and Nicotina as examples of the "huge visual and thematic richness in the country".[7] David Rooney of Variety referred to the film as "a uniquely entertaining experience".[8]

Writing Amor a Primera Visa and producing El Crimen del Cácaro Gumaro

In 2013, Ripstein co-wrote (with Georgina Riedel, Issa López, and Oscar Orlando Torres) the screenplay for the film Amor a Primera Visa, starring Mexican actors Jaime Camil and Omar Chaparro.[3] In the film, Camil is a mariachi player eager to get an American visa for himself and his daughter and falls in love with the diplomatic embassy officer (Laura Ramsey) in the process.[9] The screenplay was described by Mexican film magazine Cine Premiere reviewer Fran Hevia, as one with "lack of substance", in an overlong film with "the classic formula of 'he deceives her, they fall in love, she discovers the deceit, he seeks to win her back'".[9] Amor a Primera Visa earned $7 million at the box-office in Mexico, and $5 million in the United States.[10] Produced by Ripstein, El Crimen del Cácaro Gumaro was released in 2014 and collected $4 million in Mexico;[11] even with mixed reviews, it ended the year as the eighth most watched Mexican film in the country.[11][12]

Directorial debut with 600 Millas

British actor Tim Roth starred in 600 Millas, directed by Ripstein

Ripstein made his directorial debut in 2015 with 600 Millas, produced by him and Mexican film director Michel Franco.[1][13] The screenplay was written by Ripstein and Issa López, inspired by the ATF gunwalking scandal, about a weapons smuggler named Arnulfo Rubio (Kristyan Ferrer) who works for a Mexican cartel, and an ATF agent named Hank Harris (Tim Roth) who attempts to apprehend him, but gets kidnapped by Rubio who takes the agent to his bosses, and during the 600-miles-long drive, they became friends.[1] Ripstein wanted to focus the story on the two characters, rather than expand it to a story about cartel leaders.[1] With this film, he tried to show his vision about guns, "objectively, almost with a documentary view", since he has been close to guns since a very early age; his grandfather took him and his brother to shooting on weekends and "my brother became an exceptional shooter, they went hunting ducks and brought them, my grandmother cooked".[14] 600 Millas was premiered during the Panorama Section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won Best First Feature Film, being the second consecutive year that a Mexican film received this recognition; Güeros by Alonso Ruizpalacios won the award the previous year.[15] Ripstein dedicated the award to his son, "who surely will be the fourth generation in our family to make films, because he has great love for it".[15]

The film opened in Mexican theaters with 150 copies on December 4, 2015,[16] and was selected to represent the country at the 88th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category.[16] About the process to receive an Academy Award nomination, Ripstein stated that "much lobbying is required and unfortunately is not always the quality of the movie that decides".[13] The nominees that year were the representatives from Colombia, France, Jordan, Denmark, and the winner, from Hungary.[17]

Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 92% approval rating based on 24 reviews, with a rating average of 7.7/10.[18] Peter Debruge of Variety stated that "Ripstein allows long stretches to go by in near-silence, gradually letting the tension build as the SUV travels farther south, deeper into potentially dangerous territory".[19] Andrew Pulver of The Guardian awarded the film three stars out of five, praising Tim Roth's performance, and naming the film a "pretty enterprising movie, subtly constructing its power relationship while not losing its grip on the basic sense of tension".[20]

In 2016, 600 Miles received 13 nominations for the 58th Ariel Awards, with Ripstein earning five nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (shared with López), Best Editing (shared with Santiago Pérez Rocha), and winning Best First Feature Film.[21] Ripsten won for Best First Feature Film, and was nominated for Best Director at the 2016 Diosas de Plata Awards in Mexico.[22][23]

Producing Chronic, From Afar, and writing films directed by Enrique Begne

Ripstein, Moisés Zonana, and Michel Franco produced Franco's Chronic (2015).[13] The film competed for the Palme d'Or and earned the Best Screenplay Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; it was also screened out of competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.[13] Chronic premiered in Mexican theaters on April 8, 2016, and at the end of its premiere week, ranked in the top ten of the most watched films in Mexico.[24][25]

Ripstein and Franco, with Lorenzo Vigas, Guillermo Arriaga, Rodolfo Cova, and Édgar Ramírez, produced From Afar, a film directed by Vigas that earned the Golden Lion of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival and was exhibited at the 13th Morelia International Film Festival.[26]

In 2016, two films written by Ripstein and directed by Enrique Begne, were released. Compadres, starred by Omar Chaparro and Erick Elías, with a script co-written by Ted Perkins, received generally negative reviews.[27] Rotten Tomatoes reported a 33% approval rating based on 15 reviews, with a rating average of 4.4/10.[28] Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average to critic reviews, gave the film an average score of 28 out of 100, based on five reviews.[29] The second film, Busco novio para mi mujer, was adapted by Risptein and Pablo Solariz from the Argentinian film Un novio para mi mujer (2008), and starred Sandra Echeverría, Arath de la Torre, and Jesús Ochoa.[30] Ripstein was praised by Claudia Blix of Ruiz-Healy Times for his ability to write dramas and comedies.[30] Arturo Magaña of Cine Premiere was surprised by the fact that Ripstein was involved in this type of films, since he has been directing or producing very different films such as 600 Millas and Chronic;[31] Magaña stated about the film that "it is a good romantic comedy that follows the rules of the genre, it is entertaining, and features well structured characters".[31]

Filmography

Year Film Director Producer Writer Notes
1999 El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba Yes
2000 La Perdición de los Hombres Yes
2013 Amor a Primera Visa Yes
2014 El Crimen del Cácaro Gumaro Yes
Princesa Yes Short film
2015 Chronic Yes
From Afar Yes Executive producer
600 Millas Yes Yes Yes
2016 Compadres Yes
Busco novio para mi mujer Yes Adapted from the Argentinian film Un novio para mi mujer (2008)

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