Arrebato (1979)

Arrebato: Directed by Iván Zulueta. With Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro. A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

“Arrebato is the first film by Iván Zulueta, it is a tremendously subjugating work, a suffocating, claustrophobic film with fantastic setting and contextualization (late 70s), where a series of characters are victims of the addictions and obsessions of their time (heroine, sex …)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA visionary junkie in the super 8 era, narrated as an epistolary story by Lovecraft, i could say that it is like a Spanish David Lynch, while plot development and twists predate Cronenbergu0026#39;s VIDEODROME.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe excellent performances (José -Eusebio Poncelaque-, Ana -Cecilia Roth-, Pedro -Will More-) make the film capable of transmitting despair, tension, obsession and a series of feelings, generally unpleasant, in a credible and distressing way.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eZulueta achieves moments of great artistic inspiration, helped by a suffocating, depressing photograph that highlights the gloomy environments that the characters in the film inhabit.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere are no words to describe this film, I am sure that each time I revisit it, the experience will be different, because the cinema constantly changes and one has the feeling that we are not yet aware of all its possibilities, its ability to suggestion to unsuspected limits in our life and our way of being.”