Time to Die

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Time to Die

1965

1h 30m

Drama

Western

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7 Reviews

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After serving 18 years for killing a man in a duel, a man returns to his hometown determined to live a normal life, but the sons of the man he killed are bent on revenge.

Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

"Time to Die" turns the showdown narrative of so many oaters into an actively intelligent, darkly funny and no less suspenseful rumination on the pull of the horizon versus the ill wind at the back.

Sep 21, 2017

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

[Gabriel Garca] Mrquez and Fuentes treat the hero's atonement and friendships with great feeling, but there's a dark side to the film's poignancy, because the man's every encounter may be his last.

Sep 21, 2017

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John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

On the whole, sharp dramatization and direct performances suffice to put the story's themes across more urgently than expected.

Sep 15, 2017

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Regrets and redemption come to a significant impasse in this beautifully realized first feature.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 27, 2020

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James Plath

Family Home Theater

The cover makes it look like a telenovela . . . but this film by legendary Mexican director Arturo Ripstein has more in common with classic, tense psychological Westerns like High Noon and the original 3:10 to Yuma.

Rated: B+

Jan 16, 2018

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Eric Monder

Film Journal International

There are more virtues than debits to Time to Die, and Western fans should be relatively satisfied.

Sep 13, 2017

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Beautiful film. The use of camera angles in movement, including the shakey ones, and the use of sounds were extremely well done for the time period. The plotline of youthful masculinity vs. matured masculinity is one that never seems to age out of style- remaining ever prevalent in our cultures. The acting was good and the ending scene with the cross in the desert really pulled it together. I was sad at the end and quite shocked, but as mature as a young man may seem, if pushed to the edge he has not had long enough mastery of himself to not succumb to emotional impulse.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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After serving 18 years for killing a man in a duel, a man returns to his hometown determined to live a normal life, but the sons of the man he killed are bent on revenge.

Director: Arturo Ripstein
Producer: Alfredo Ripstein Hijo, César Santos Galindo
Screenwriter: Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez
Genre: Drama, Western
Original Language: Spanish
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Sep 15, 2017
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 20, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.1K
Runtime: 1h 30m