{"id":14995,"date":"2022-06-07T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14995"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T21:32:22","slug":"arrebato-1980-ivan-zulueta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14995","title":{"rendered":"Arrebato (1980, Ivan Zulueta)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jos\u00e9 is a drug-addict filmmaker editing a vampire movie (Law of Desire<\/em> star Eusebio Poncela). He meets Pedro, an extreme cinema obsessive (Will More of Dark Habits<\/em>). The two are maybe not great for each other, or maybe that’s the drugs talking – movie jumps back in time to when Pedro was alive, while in the present tense, Jos\u00e9 gets high with Ana (All About My Mother<\/em> star Cecilia Roth) and investigates letters, tapes and films sent to him.<\/p>\n

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Jos\u00e9’s inspirational posters also include Viridiana wearing a Spider-Man mask.<\/em>
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Pedro is a super-creepy young man who only loves cinema and silly putty. He gets a stop-motion time-lapse gizmo and films himself sleeping, becoming obsessed with some hidden change that is happening. His camera apparently becomes sentient and starts killing people, beginning with Pedro’s large-eyed cousin Marta, while Pedro becomes hoarse-voiced, weak and withdrawn. Jos\u00e9 finally arrives, performs a blindfold ritual before the killer camera, and becomes pure cinema.<\/p>\n

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I prioritized watching this after Nick Pinkerton’s writeup<\/a> – some of his best work.<\/p>\n

Pedro’s address to Jos\u00e9, dictated from the edge of oblivion in an unrecognizable rasp suggestive of lycanthropic transformation, structures what narrative Arrebato can be said to have … In Arrebato’s last act, which finds Jos\u00e9 totally absorbed in Pedro’s film and his strange quest, it becomes a movie about one run-down sybarite who’s coming apart at the seams bearing witness to the spectacle of another run-down sybarite who has<\/em> come apart at the seams, both \u201creunited\u201d on celluloid in the film’s inspired and singularly unnerving closing scene. If you watch the movie and aren’t keeping it together particularly well yourself – and who is these days? – this can all add up to a disquieting hall-of-mirrors effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Jos\u00e9 is a drug-addict filmmaker editing a vampire movie (Law of Desire star Eusebio Poncela). He meets Pedro, an extreme cinema obsessive (Will More of Dark Habits). The two are maybe not great for each other, or maybe that’s the drugs talking – movie jumps back in time to when Pedro was alive, while in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,91,189],"class_list":["post-14995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-filmmaking","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15048,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14995\/revisions\/15048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}