Mexican Cinema. Shared Visions

Principio y fin (Beginning and End)
Arturo Ripstein
Mexico, 1993
35mm | 170min. | Colour | VOSI

Production:
Alfredo Ripstein, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), Alameda FILMS, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica

Screenplay:
Paz Alicia Garciadiego
Photography:
Claudio Rocha
Editor:
Rafael Castañedo
Music:
Lucía Álvarez
Sound:
Antonio Diego, David Baksht
Actors:
Ernesto Laguardia, Julieta Egurrola, Bruno Bichir, Lucía Muñoz
 
Sinopsis

When her husband dies, leaving her as head of the family, a widow favours her youngest son over her other children, with tragic results. Ripstein shifts Mahfouz’s tragic Egyptian universe to the Mexican middle class in a no-holds-barred familiar melodrama shot in elegant sequence shots.

 
Festivals

Concha de Oro - Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 1993
Prix - Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena 1993