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The Realm of Fortune
(El imperio de la fortuna)

Arturo Ripstein & Paz Alicia Garcíadiego in Person
Screening on Film
$12 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Arturo Ripstein.
With Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Blanca Guerra, Alejandro Parodi.
Mexico, 1985, 35mm, color, 126 min.
Spanish with English subtitles.

A mesmerizing fable about decline and decadence, The Realm of Fortune is both stark and baroque in its transformation of the remotest Mexican hinterlands into a mythic world of Pyrrhic victory and ritualistically humiliating defeat. Based on a story by legendary Mexican author Juan Rulfo, The Realm of Fortune was the first of Ripstein's films with a screenplay masterfully written by his future partner Paz Alicia Garcíadiego, the launch of their storied collaboration. The pessimism, dark sexuality, black humor and the strange tenderness which the film shows to its misshapen characters would become important signatures of the Ripstein-Garcíadiego films.

The Realm of Fortune introduction and post-screening discussion with Arturo Ripstein, Paz Alicia Garcíadiego and HFA Director Haden Guest.

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