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  • 2021
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  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 55 m
Arrebato (1979)

Summary Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel of Super-8 film, an audiotape, and a door key. From there, the boundaries of time, s...

Written By: Iván Zulueta

  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2021
  • Unrated
  • Altered Innocence
  • 1 h 55 m

Arrebato (1979)

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
80
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events: a sudden reappearance from an ex-girlfriend and a package from past acquaintance Pedro: a reel of Super-8 film, an audiotape, and a door key. From there, the boundaries of time, s...

Written By: Iván Zulueta

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88
Oct 1, 2021
Arrebato invokes cinema as an otherworldly entity that possesses, just as addictive and destructive as mind-altering substances injected into the bloodstream.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
88
Arrebato is an arresting feat of self-aware filmmaking, lashing together experimental tendencies with the tropes and trappings of genre cinema.
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Its parts recall many later works as diverse as Trainspotting and The Ring, its depiction of addiction and stasis leading us towards a legitimately brilliant ending that brings the whole thing into meta territory with its film-within-a-film coaxing us to enter the fray ourselves.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
80
A hallucinatory, claustrophobic examination of the secret potency of film itself, it enters the disorienting world of a young film-maker who discovers his camera has a feature he'd never imagined. Taking one right back to those great '70s mood-movies, it's a singular treat. [05 Nov 2003, p.97]
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A movie completely in the addictive thrall of cinema, unhealthily enamored with the act of creation itself, Arrebato is an unnerving and enthralling fetish empowered by its hedonism: Drugs, sex, beauty, nostalgia and a disillusioned disaffection with them all.
By Jacob Oller FULL REVIEW
75
It is a startling film in structure, style and story, but most of all in the simplicity of its plot -- which, once revealed (and that takes a while) is a horror story for cineastes. [03 Feb 1983, p.C8]
By Bill Cosford FULL REVIEW
67
Oct 6, 2021
Even if it beat Videodrome to the screen by two years, it's not quite the same level of must-see programming. It's fascinating, but less coherent, less scathing, and far more meandering.
By Richard Whittaker FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Nicolás Astiarraga P.C.
Release Date Oct 1, 2021
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards

Fantasporto
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Mystfest
• 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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