Fri 10th April 8:45pm

Iván Zulueta, 105 min, Spain, 1980. Drama.

A cult masterpiece of underground cinema, Arrebato depicts, in a metaphorical way, the vampiric relationship between a B-grade film director suffering a personal and creative crisis and a mysterious young man obsessed with the process of filming. Testing the limits between fiction and reality, vampirism provides the ideal vehicle for a fascinating meditation on addiction to drugs, to cinema, and ultimately, to the other. In 2004, prestigious Spanish journal Rockdelux proclaimed this mesmeric and accursed film by maverick director Iván Zulueta to be the best Spanish film ever.

Cast: Eusebio Poncela, Marta Fernández-Muro, Cecilia Roth, Carmen Giralt, Helena Fernán-Gómez, Antonio Gasset, Luis Ciges

AWARDS

• Mystfest Cattolica, Italia. 1980
  
• Fantasporto Festival Oporto, Portugal. 1982
  
• "Película de Oro" 11 Málaga Film Festival. 2008

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