Iván Zuleta's Arrebato is surreal and weird and very sexy. I’m not sure I really get what was happening. Vampires… vampiric cinema… heroin… honestly I don’t know. But I was into it.
Also Eusebio Poncela is even sexier in this than he is in Law of Desire and Matador. In many ways, Arrebato actually feels like it's in the Almódovar universe. Cecilia Roth is gorgeous and young and hot in this, and the vampire filmmaker weirdo is played by Will More, who was also in Dark Habits.
Arrebato was released in Spain in 1979 and only released in the U.S. in October 1982. I am not really sure why this was on my radar to watch, but Criterion is kicking it off the channel at the end of the month, so I prioritized it. I'm glad I did.
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