Overall rating: 4.6885247 / 5 from 61 reviews.
This limited edition spot gloss slipcover, designed by Tony Stella, is available in a limited run of 2,000 units. Customers appreciate the transfer quality and the film, which is enjoyable with a great slipcover. The Blu-ray includes an introduction by director Alex Cox, commentary by director Arturo Ripstein and actor Enrique Rocha, and essays by film critics.
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"The cinematography and pacing create a beautifully languid, melancholy mood. This is a truly great meditation on the Western and the violence inherent in masculine pride. Excellent booklet essays and commentary put the film in historical and aesthetic context. Naturally, attention will perk up when Gabriel García Márquez's writing credit comes up, and these supplementals offer a wealth of background. Highly recommended."
"This is a really good release for a great obscure movie. Very happy with the purchase. Hope you guys release some more rare westerns."
"One of the most impressive directorial debuts I’ve seen in years. A moody, melancholic western steeped in fate, revenge, and everything that lingers in the spaces between. Beautifully shot, quietly devastating, and haunting long after the credits roll."
"Great mexican western about revenge and masculinity. Reminded me of clint eastwoods unforgiven in the way it examines and deconstructs the aging cowboy. The cinematography was great, a lovely atmosphere. Slip case release looks and feels great."
"Had never heard of this film before A blind buy. Loved every minute of it, very underrated western. A film about fate and karma. Slipcover looks fantastic."
"Beautiful film, impeccable restoration. Its (seriously, slow!) crawling pace makes it difficult to engage with, but it’s worth the work by its finish. Excellent acting, wonderful dialog (even in translation!), and complicated yet direct dynamics."
"Ripstein is a master and is deserving of such a great edition. Anyone of fan of morally complicated westerns has no excuse to not get a copy of this!"
"Time to Die (Tiempo de morir, 1966) opens as a deceptively simple western, but its power comes from the way it reframes the genre as a moral and emotional reckoning. Rather than centering on shootouts or frontier heroics, the film uses Juan Sayago’s return from an 18‑year prison sentence to explore how a community preserves memory, how violence echoes across generations, and how a man tries to reclaim his dignity in a place that refuses to let him forget. Because the script was written by Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes, the story carries a literary precision: every encounter, silence, and gesture hints at the weight of history pressing down on Sayago. Ripstein’s direction, spare and unadorned, reinforces the sense that the tragedy is already written and the characters are simply walking toward it."
"A brilliant western and an incredible release, great job by Film Movement getting this gem out there in the open."
"You can't go wrong with a western that Alex Cox reccomends."
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