Merlin, Arrieta’s one feature shot on 35mm, is an adaptation of Cocteau’s play “Knights of the Round Table.”Read More »
Adolfo Arrieta
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Adolfo Arrieta – Merlín AKA Merlin (1991)
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Adolfo Arrieta – Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski AKA The Adventures of Sylvia Couski (1975)
1971-1980Adolfo ArrietaCultFantasyFranceQueer Cinema(s)Adolpho Arrietta was a major figure in the new cinemas that appeared in the sixties and seventies in various countries. Thus he became one of the fundamental film directors in the history of Spanish cinema. As with Buñuel, a long exile seems to have been the condition that allowed his work to keep up with the most important trends in the cinema of his era. Throughout the seventies he produced a series of “punk à la française” films, as Severo Sarduy called them, which for their originality and influence are among the most important in French cinema of that decade. In 1989 he returned to Madrid, and despite noteable intervals, which other Spanish film directors of his generation also experienced, his work proceeded. Alone, like in the era of El crimen de la pirindola but with a digital camera, he produced what for the moment is his latest film: Vacanza permanente (2006).Read More »
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Adolfo Arrieta – Delirios de amor: Kikí AKA Kiki (1989)
1981-1990Adolfo ArrietaArthouseSpainTVLuis Eduardo Aute proposed to Arrietta to make an episode for the TV series Delusions of love, and he decided to adapt La Chatte, Colette: the story of a woman, a man, and a cat. The themes of love, sex and jealousy are portrayed both tragically and comically, and the power of this film is to show both perspectives in parallel.Read More »
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Adolfo Arrieta – Tam Tam (1976)
Arthouse1971-1980Adolfo ArrietaCampFranceQueer Cinema(s)Adolpho Arrietta was a major figure in the new cinemas that appeared in the sixties and seventies in various countries. Thus he became one of the fundamental film directors in the history of Spanish cinema. As with Buñuel, a long exile seems to have been the condition that allowed his work to keep up with the most important trends in the cinema of his era. Throughout the seventies he produced a series of “punk à la française” films, as Severo Sarduy called them, which for their originality and influence are among the most important in French cinema of that decade. In 1989 he returned to Madrid, and despite noteable intervals, which other Spanish film directors of his generation also experienced, his work proceeded. Alone, like in the era of El crimen de la pirindola but with a digital camera, he produced what for the moment is his latest film: Vacanza permanente (2006).Read More »
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Adolfo Arrieta – Flammes (1978)
1971-1980Adolfo ArrietaArthouseDramaFranceA girl’s obsession with firemen causes her to start a fire at her own home in order to trap a fireman in her room. The film features the last onscreen performance by Dionys Mascolo (writer, political activist, known for his voiceover in India Song and for his love affair with Marguerite Duras) and one of the earliest appearances of Pascal Greggory.Read More »
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Adolfo Arrieta – Narciso AKA Echo and Narcissus (2003)
2001-2010Adolfo ArrietaArthouseFantasySpainIn a garden at the party of the God Bacchus, Narciso’s presence is the highlight of the party. Both gods and mortals seek his favors without getting anywhere.Read More »
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Adolfo Arrieta – Grenouilles (1983)
1981-1990Adolfo ArrietaArthouseFantasyFranceGrenouilles (Frogs) is perhaps Arrieta’s strangest film. Anne Wiazemsky plays a beautiful Russian spy, Nora, who arrives on an island in the middle of the ocean, to avenge the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor. Other characters include a spy from UNESCO, a mysterious stranger who is plotting the end of the world, and a gang of thieves disguised as frogmen…Read More »
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Adolfo Arrieta – Dry Martini (Buñuelino cocktail) (2008)
2001-2010Adolfo ArrietaExperimentalShort FilmSpainTribute to Luis Bunuel’s passion for drinking cocktails.Read More »
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Adolfo Arrieta – Grenouilles (1983)
Adolfo Arrieta1981-1990ArthouseFantasyFranceGrenouilles (Frogs) is perhaps his strangest film. Anne Wiazemsky plays a beautiful Russian spy, Nora, who arrives on an island in the middle of the ocean, to avenge the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor. Other characters include a spy from UNESCO, a mysterious stranger who is plotting the end of the world, and a gang of thieves disguised as frogmen….Read More »