The Last Rapture

Arrebato (1980) is the great cult movie of today's Spanish cinema and Iván Zulueta, its director, an accursed filmmaker. Arrebato was the film that forecast the end of the movida, a dark and harrowing reel whose history and intra-history are intimately linked. Arrebato acts as a premonition of the director’s own life. Just like his actors, Zulueta will end up being brought down by drugs and the cinema and, like them, will also disappear.

Director: Marta Medina, Enrique López Lavigne

Cast: Iván Zulueta, Jaime Chávarri, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Marta Fernández Muro, Virginia Montenegro, Carlos Astiarraga, Paco Hoyos

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.