Seneca’s Medea in This is the life (2000), Arturo Ripstein’s film

Authors

  • Francisco Javier Tovar Paz Universidad de Extremadura

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23808/rel.v2i0.87971

Keywords:

Classical Tradition; Theater; Tragedy; Seneca; Ripstein; Film; Cinema; Latinoamerican Culture; Comparative Analysis.

Abstract

The film Así es la vida, by Arturo Ripstein, is an adaptation of the tragedy Medea by Seneca; it is set in a contemporary mexican environment. This essay deals not only with the coincidences about characters, action and structure, but also with the fact that the film brings up to date the singularity of the senecan dramatic play in relation to the themes of ineffable things, the true and the memory, themes wich are also typical of Ripstein’s cinema. 

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Published

2002-12-20

How to Cite

Tovar Paz, F. J. (2002) “Seneca’s Medea in This is the life (2000), Arturo Ripstein’s film”, Revista de Estudios Latinos, 2, pp. 169–195. doi: 10.23808/rel.v2i0.87971.

Issue

Vol. 2 (2002)

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Articles

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