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Such Is Life

Such Is Life (2000)

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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

Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Paz Alicia Garcíadiego

Sep 25, 2007

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Worthwhile, but more interesting than good.

January 15, 2008 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The overriding fault for this art-house film was that it is not poetic.

September 24, 2001 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The film becomes too much of a one-note rant, ultimately shutting down the viewer's empathy rather than engaging it.

May 5, 2001 Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | Comment
Arthur Lazere
culturevulture.net

Mantiene la característica ripsteniana de presentar un mundo cruel y desesperanzado, en el que viven las clases más marginadas de nuestra sociedad.

March 16, 2001 Full Review Source: Moviola | Comment
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola
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