The industry resisted renewing itself and was instead largely bogged down in low budget, tired genre films made by the same directors (since few directors were permitted into the Mexican film directors guild). Ripstein began filming at age twenty-one at a time when the Mexican film industry-which had been the dominant Spanish language cinema of the Americas in the 1940s and 1950s with an internationally recognized star system-veered into a sharp decline in the 1960s. His feature film debut as a director in the Mexican film industry was with Tiempo de morir ( Time to Die, 1965), a western with a screenplay written by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes that critiques violent masculinity. Photo credit: Juan Pablo Zamora / Cuartoscuro.
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