Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 2
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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
Sep 25, 2007
All Critics (7) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (2)
Worthwhile, but more interesting than good.
The overriding fault for this art-house film was that it is not poetic.
The film becomes too much of a one-note rant, ultimately shutting down the viewer's empathy rather than engaging it.
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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