Adolpho Arrietta - Complete Works 1966 - 2008 (13 Films) - 4-DVD Box Set ( El crimen de la pirindola / La imitación del ángel / Le jouet criminal / Vacanza permanente / Le château de Pointilly / Flammes / Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski / Tam Tam / Grenouilles / Delirios de amor Kikí / Merlín / Eco y Narciso / Bunuelino Cocktail ) ( The Crime of the Spinning Top / Imitation of the Angel / The Criminal Toy / Permanent Vacation / Pointilly / Flames / The Adventures of Sylvia Couski / Tam Tam / Frogs / Kiki / Merlín / Narciso / Dry Martini )

Adolpho Arrietta - Complete Works 1966 - 2008 (13 Films) - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El crimen de la pirindola / La imitación del ángel / Le jouet criminal / Vacanza permanente / Le château de Pointilly / Flammes / Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski / Tam Tam / Grenouilles / Delirios de amor Kikí / Merlín / Eco y Narciso / Bunuelino Cocktail
Alternate Title: The Crime of the Spinning Top / Imitation of the Angel / The Criminal Toy / Permanent Vacation / Pointilly / Flames / The Adventures of Sylvia Couski / Tam Tam / Frogs / Kiki / Merlín / Narciso / Dry Martini
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Multi-lingual ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
517 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1966 - 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Adolfo Arrieta

Written By:
Adolfo Arrieta
Cast

Antonio González-Vigil
Luis Bunuel

Actors:
Xavier Grandès
Adolfo Arrieta
Jean Marais ..... Le vieil homme
Michèle Moretti ..... La femme qui court
Xavier Grandès ..... L'ange
Florence Delay ..... La femme au foyer
Philippe Bruneau ..... Le mari de la femme au foyer
Sylvain Godet
André Julien
Jean-Charles Tisson
Françoise Lebrun
Dionys Mascolo
Caroline Loeb ..... Barbara
Xavier Grandès ..... Le pompier
Dionys Mascolo ..... Le père de Barbara
Marilu Marini ..... La mère de Barbara
Pascal Greggory ..... Paul, le frère de Barbara
Isabel García Lorca ..... Claire, la préceptrice
Geoffrey Carey ..... Jim
Paquita Paquin ..... La première préceptrice
Eloïse Bennett ..... Barbara enfant
Jaime Santiago ..... Le 2e pompier
Marie-France
Michèle Moretti
Howard Vernon
Gaëtane Gaël
Hélène Hazéra
Michel Cressolle
Maud Molyneux
Paquita Paquin
Jacquie Severo Sarduy
Costa Comnene
Vincente Criado
Hélène Kiruna
Marcia Moreto
Mercedes Rubinossa
Enrique Vila-Matas
Anne Wiazemsky ..... Nora
Adolfo Arrieta ..... Baronne Kempf
Xavier Grandès ..... Tibor
Pascal Greggory ..... Miguel
Élisabeth Bourgine ..... Irene
Jean-Louis Vitrac ..... Juan
Eva Ionesco ..... Kati
Clara Sanchis ..... Elena
Xavier Grandès ..... Armando
Myriam De Maeztu
Anthony Blake
Gonzalo Armero
Enrique Sarasola ..... Febo
Silvia Riolobos ..... La ninfa Ecos
Julio Montejo ..... Narciso
Regina Degiorgis ..... Elena
Carlos Marrero ..... Baco
Guadalupe Marcote ..... Kaliope
Sonia Gara ..... Ninfa
Donatello Fumarola ..... (voice

Synopsis:

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 Bunuel, 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 a la francaise" 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). This is the complete works of this filmmaker, considered the pioneer of independent cinema in Spain and hailed by artists and critics such as Jonas Mekas, Marguerite Duras or Serge Daney.

DVD 1
El crimen de la pirindola / The Crime of the Spinning Top. 1966. Spain. 18 min
A young boy plays with a top instead of doing his homework and daydreams about his brother and his brother's girlfriend.
Imitacion del angel / Imitation of the Angel. 1967. Spain. 21 min.
Surreal experimental film in which angels take part in a murder.
Le Jouet criminel / The Criminal Toy. 1969. France. 37 min.
A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.
Vacanza permanente / Permanent Vacation. 2006. Spain. 40 min.
In his latest essay Vacanza Permanente, Arrietta discovers and enthusiastically embraces digital editing at home.
DVD 2
Pointilly. 1972. France. 30 min.
"At any rate, it's about a father, a father's reign over destiny. Whether or not this father is terrestrial or has a name concerns us insofar as we may or may not cling to the illusion of clarity, to the ingenuity of reason."
Flammes. 1978. France. 82 min.
A girl's obsession with firemen causes her to start a fire at her own home in order to trap a fireman in her room.
DVD 3
Las intrigas de Sylvia Couski / The Adventures of Sylvia Couski. 1974. France. 73 min.
Adolfo Arrieta's third feature film stars famed French transsexual and founding member of the FHAR (Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action), Marie-France, and is widely regarded as the first Parisian underground film. The loose plot revolves around the ex-wife of a famous sculptor who convinces her lover to remove a work by her ex-husband and replace it with a live model. "Its subject is the Paris transvestite scene and it's depicted with the flair of Jack Smith, the directness of Andy Warhol, and the special tenderness of Arrieta. I salute the Poet." - Jonas Mekas, February, 1975.
Tam Tam. 1976. France. 60 min.
Marginal wildlife (read: artists and transvestites) of Saint-Germain-des-Pres are throwing a party to honor a handsome stranger who's eagerly expected but actually never arrives.
"For a few months - the time it took to film Tam Tam, Adolfo Arrieta's underground film, the film with the most transvestites per square foot in the history of cinema - most of my social interaction was with transvestites. [...] What Arrieta was actually making was punk cinema in the French style, and with its apparent excess of realism he was years ahead even of his compatriot Almodovar. 'An excess of realism. In the transvestite there is an enhanced femininity (women imitate them), but Arrieta just directs them as actresses, without insisting on excessive cosmetics or the easily flamboyant aspects of the situation,' Severo Sarduy wrote about the film." - Never Any End to Paris, Enrique Vila-Matas
Grenouilles / Frogs. 1984. France-Spain. 39 min.
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...
DVD 4
Kiki. 1989. Spain. 23 min.
Luis 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.
Merlin. 1990. Spain. 58 min.
Merlin, his one feature shot on 35mm, is an adaptation of Cocteau's play "Knights of the Round Table".
Eco y Narciso. 2003. Spain. 19 min.
In 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.
Dry Martini. 2008. Italy-Spain. 7 min.
Tribute to Luis Bunuel's passion for drinking cocktails.

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