Special Engagement
Time to Die (Tiempo de Morir)
Dir. Arturo Ripstein, Mexico, 1965, 90 min., Spanish w/ English subtitles
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Juan Sáyago returns
to his hometown
after serving 18
years in prison
for the murder
of Raúl Trueba. Although
he killed in
self-defense, rumors in
town circulated during
his absence speculating that the
victim was killed in cold blood. Sáyago wants to rebuild the life he was denied
with his old lover, Mariana Sampedro, but Trueba’s sons have sworn to avenge
the murder of their father. This classic Mexican neo-western, was the first
realized screenplay of
Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García
Márquez and legendary
Mexican novelist Carlos
Fuentes. Under the direction of
Arturo Ripstein, Time to Die
represents one of the earliest examples of New Mexican Cinema and one of the
most accomplished Mexican films from the 1960s.