Director
Iván Zulueta
Starring
Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro
Run Time
151 mins
Release Year
1979
Country of Origin
Spain
Language
Spanish
Director of Photography: Ángel Luis Fernández
Editor: José Luis Peláez
Produced by: Nicolás Astiarraga
Music: Negativo
Screenplay by: Iván Zulueta
Rapture (Arrebato)
Part of the Once Upon a Time in Spain Strand
Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, this experimental horror drama from writer-director Iván Zulueta is a timeless gem. As celebrated director Pedro Almodóvar, a close friend of Zulueta, observed in 2009, ‘Arrebato reverberates with the same force as it did 30 years ago, the year it opened.’ Shot in just 15 days on a shoestring budget, Zulueta’s Rapture is a radical landmark in Spanish cinema that influenced a whole generation of future Spanish filmmakers, including Almodóvar and Álex de la Iglesia. [18]
Screening with
The Telephone Box Antonio Mercero/Spain/1972/35 min/Spanish with subtitles
A man goes into a phone booth to make a call and can’t get out. An increasingly disturbing short film that eventually blossoms into a surrealistic nightmare, director Antonio Mercero’s Emmy Award-winning La cabina, co-written by famous writer-director José Luis Garci and starring veteran actor José Luis López Vázquez is essential Spanish cult cinema.
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