Arrebato (1979)
Altered Innocence | Release Date: October 1, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
80
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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7
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0
Negative:
0
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RogerEbert.comCarlos AguilarOct 1, 2021
Arrebato invokes cinema as an otherworldly entity that possesses, just as addictive and destructive as mind-altering substances injected into the bloodstream. Read full review
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Slant MagazineBudd Wilkins
Arrebato is an arresting feat of self-aware filmmaking, lashing together experimental tendencies with the tropes and trappings of genre cinema. Read full review
83
The Film StageJared Mobarak
Its parts recall many later works as diverse as Trainspotting and The Ring, its depiction of addiction and stasis leading us towards a legitimately brilliant ending that brings the whole thing into meta territory with its film-within-a-film coaxing us to enter the fray ourselves. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineJacob Oller
A movie completely in the addictive thrall of cinema, unhealthily enamored with the act of creation itself, Arrebato is an unnerving and enthralling fetish empowered by its hedonism: Drugs, sex, beauty, nostalgia and a disillusioned disaffection with them all. Read full review
80
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
A hallucinatory, claustrophobic examination of the secret potency of film itself, it enters the disorienting world of a young film-maker who discovers his camera has a feature he'd never imagined. Taking one right back to those great '70s mood-movies, it's a singular treat. [05 Nov 2003, p.97]
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Miami HeraldBill Cosford
It is a startling film in structure, style and story, but most of all in the simplicity of its plot -- which, once revealed (and that takes a while) is a horror story for cineastes. [03 Feb 1983, p.C8]
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Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerOct 6, 2021
Even if it beat Videodrome to the screen by two years, it's not quite the same level of must-see programming. It's fascinating, but less coherent, less scathing, and far more meandering. Read full review
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