ASI ES LA VIDA
Julia lives in a gigantic city, dusty and impersonal. Julia is 25, has two children and a husband. Julia never went to college, she is orphaned and unemployed. Julia dedicates her life to everyday medicine: she cures bunions, sore backs and sore souls, she even does abortions when the pregnancy is recent.
Julia is lonely. She has no friends, no family, no roots. The city took them away from her. Julia has only her children, and her husband. Or so she thought. For one day, she finds herself without a husband. And when he goes, so does her old decrepit apartment, her job as a medicine-woman, her pride and her dignity.. On that day, her whole universe falls apart. Shattered. On that day, she is left only with her children, the only witnesses of her husband’s love and later detachment. They s
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 98 minutes
Credits
- Arturo RIPSTEIN Director
- Arturo RIPSTEIN Screenplay
- Paz Alicia GARCIADIEGO Screenplay
- Guillermo GRANILLO Cinematography
- David MANSFIELD Music
- Leoncio LARA Music
- Carlos PUENTE Editing
- Claudio CONTRERAS Production Design
Casting
- Patricia REYES SPINDOLA Adela
- Ernesto YANEZ The fat man
- Luis Felipe TOVAR Nicolas
- Arcelia RAMIREZ Julia