Arrebato is the enigmatic masterpiece of the accursed, tragic and unsuccessful Ivan Zulueta, a musician and graphic designer that made a very brief career as a movie director.
Zulueta was the designer of the movie posters of the very successful Pedro Almodovar.
The director of Arrebato struggled all his life with a strong addiction to heroine and depression. He had long treatments with methadone.
Arrebato ( Rapture) is a movie that defies labels. It is a mix of fantastic, horror, and experimental cinema. It is a movie that had a very, very short budget, and it was a miracle that it was finished.
You may like or dislike the movie, but it will not leave you indifferent. You even may end up yelling: what the hell was that about!
But everybody watches the movie till the end. Arrebato has something, an eerie quality that makes you stay in the sofa and pay attention to the film till the very end. It is indifferent that you like it or dislike it.
The movie is " far darker than darkness", freakish and weird, told from a completely amoral perspective.
It has some surreal moments, Buñuel Style. Also, as many have pointed out, there is some slight " David Lynch" touch.
This is a very influential movie.
A forgotten and unsuccessful movie that many great directors have watched and copied.
"The Hunger", with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, borrows heavily from Arrebato. "The Addiction", of Abel Ferrara, is also "borrowing". Many others do, including some very well known people.
Unfortunately, Zulueta and Arrebato are never given credit.
Arrebato is a deeply disturbing movie, avant-garde, extremely somber, that explores the darkest parts of your soul.
Arrebato is a story of Trauma, Addiction and Bliss, of a search for reality and consciousness.
Also, the movie presents the story mixing up ghosts, bisexuality, vampires, murders, parasites, and life itself as an addiction, in an extremely unconventional style.
In the end, the movie is a study of cinema itself, and the fusion of the audience ( viewer) with cinema itself ( the viewed).
Of course, the movie was not understood. At the time, critics largely ignored the movie. After many years, and after the death of Zulueta, always with a fragile health due to his drug problem, critics have finally praised the movie. Slowly, the influence of the film is being acknowledged.
One of the greatest movies of the vampire genre. You will not see it in one of those lists that everybody reads on the internet.
If you can get a copy, buy it. This is like an antique, a unique piece for collectors.
I advice a second viewing of the movie a couple of months later. You will be amazed. I think there is a DVD in Amazon with English Subtitles.
If you like it dark, weird and highly disturbing, do not think it twice and watch it!
Zulueta was the designer of the movie posters of the very successful Pedro Almodovar.
The director of Arrebato struggled all his life with a strong addiction to heroine and depression. He had long treatments with methadone.
Arrebato ( Rapture) is a movie that defies labels. It is a mix of fantastic, horror, and experimental cinema. It is a movie that had a very, very short budget, and it was a miracle that it was finished.
You may like or dislike the movie, but it will not leave you indifferent. You even may end up yelling: what the hell was that about!
But everybody watches the movie till the end. Arrebato has something, an eerie quality that makes you stay in the sofa and pay attention to the film till the very end. It is indifferent that you like it or dislike it.
The movie is " far darker than darkness", freakish and weird, told from a completely amoral perspective.
It has some surreal moments, Buñuel Style. Also, as many have pointed out, there is some slight " David Lynch" touch.
This is a very influential movie.
A forgotten and unsuccessful movie that many great directors have watched and copied.
"The Hunger", with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, borrows heavily from Arrebato. "The Addiction", of Abel Ferrara, is also "borrowing". Many others do, including some very well known people.
Unfortunately, Zulueta and Arrebato are never given credit.
Arrebato is a deeply disturbing movie, avant-garde, extremely somber, that explores the darkest parts of your soul.
Arrebato is a story of Trauma, Addiction and Bliss, of a search for reality and consciousness.
Also, the movie presents the story mixing up ghosts, bisexuality, vampires, murders, parasites, and life itself as an addiction, in an extremely unconventional style.
In the end, the movie is a study of cinema itself, and the fusion of the audience ( viewer) with cinema itself ( the viewed).
Of course, the movie was not understood. At the time, critics largely ignored the movie. After many years, and after the death of Zulueta, always with a fragile health due to his drug problem, critics have finally praised the movie. Slowly, the influence of the film is being acknowledged.
One of the greatest movies of the vampire genre. You will not see it in one of those lists that everybody reads on the internet.
If you can get a copy, buy it. This is like an antique, a unique piece for collectors.
I advice a second viewing of the movie a couple of months later. You will be amazed. I think there is a DVD in Amazon with English Subtitles.
If you like it dark, weird and highly disturbing, do not think it twice and watch it!