Reviews

Pretentious and slow. Grotesque to say the least. It pretends to be "different". However, it does not accomplish well this task.

The actors are fine, and the cinematography is not bad. However, the final product is not fortunate. It does not impress, does not connect.

Also, Don Quixote speaking catalan is not precisely the best approach. It is very difficult to manage to portray an unlikable Don Quixote, as the Don is in fact one of the most likable charachters of universal literature. But they accomplished precisely that. It breaks the originality of the novel without giving anything superb in exchange ( we could easily forgive departures from convention if these departures were successful, but they were not).

Too long, devoid of charm, unsuccesful attempt.

Overrated, self-indulgent, narcissistic, and empty. Good aesthetics, Marcello wears nice sunglasses, Anouk Aimee is very pretty, a few obvious things, lots of pretentious scenes, a few famous actors and actresses just occupying space. The movie has no grandiose meaning. It only pretends to have it. A big aesthetic voidness. There is nothing in this movie but a few clichés.

I love Japanese Cinema. I watched with patience this movie. I liked the filming and the actors. However, i found the story a bit too much sentimental, as well as a bit hypocritical.

The story is quite predictable, and there are too many tears. There is also an excessive use of singing. If they had decreased the level of emotional and ideological manipulation, i would have given the movie a 7.

Arrebato is the enigmatic masterpiece of the accursed, tragic and unsuccessful Ivan Zulueta, a musician and graphic designer that made a very brief career as a movie director.

Zulueta was the designer of the movie posters of the very successful Pedro Almodovar.

The director of Arrebato struggled all his life with a strong addiction to heroine and depression. He had long treatments with methadone.

Arrebato ( Rapture) is a movie that defies labels. It is a mix of fantastic, horror, and experimental cinema. It is a movie that had a very, very short budget, and it was a miracle that it was finished.

You may like or dislike the movie, but it will not leave you indifferent. You even may end up yelling: what the hell was that about!

But everybody watches the movie till the end. Arrebato has something, an eerie quality that makes you stay in the sofa and pay attention to the film till the very end. It is indifferent that you like it or dislike it.

The movie is " far darker than darkness", freakish and weird, told from a completely amoral perspective.

It has some surreal moments, Buñuel Style. Also, as many have pointed out, there is some slight " David Lynch" touch.

This is a very influential movie.

A forgotten and unsuccessful movie that many great directors have watched and copied.

"The Hunger", with David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve, borrows heavily from Arrebato. "The Addiction", of Abel Ferrara, is also "borrowing". Many others do, including some very well known people.

Unfortunately, Zulueta and Arrebato are never given credit.

Arrebato is a deeply disturbing movie, avant-garde, extremely somber, that explores the darkest parts of your soul.

Arrebato is a story of Trauma, Addiction and Bliss, of a search for reality and consciousness.

Also, the movie presents the story mixing up ghosts, bisexuality, vampires, murders, parasites, and life itself as an addiction, in an extremely unconventional style.

In the end, the movie is a study of cinema itself, and the fusion of the audience ( viewer) with cinema itself ( the viewed).

Of course, the movie was not understood. At the time, critics largely ignored the movie. After many years, and after the death of Zulueta, always with a fragile health due to his drug problem, critics have finally praised the movie. Slowly, the influence of the film is being acknowledged.

One of the greatest movies of the vampire genre. You will not see it in one of those lists that everybody reads on the internet.

If you can get a copy, buy it. This is like an antique, a unique piece for collectors.

I advice a second viewing of the movie a couple of months later. You will be amazed. I think there is a DVD in Amazon with English Subtitles.

If you like it dark, weird and highly disturbing, do not think it twice and watch it!

The story has good potential. However, it is all in a very poor style. The movie is difficult to watch even for those predisposed to like it.

The choice of actors is not the best.

It all leaves much to be desired.

The director, who is well known, executes a mediocre work.

Predictable end, typical soft-core nudity for the moment.

Movie has not aged well.

Bad work, which could have been more better with not much work. Pity.

The characters are horrible. Poor story, with a very primitive sense of humour, easy and grotesque. The Princess does not look the part, and Toshiro Mifune, is not the best.

It is a very boring movie, slow, long, and with no reward whatsoever. There is nothing clever about it. It is all very superficial and mediocre.

Great Directors also make bad movies. This is an example of it.

I have always found that Kurosawa's reputation is exaggerated in the west. I do prefer Ozu, Naruse, Mizoguchi, Yamanaka, or more modern directors such as Shohei Imamura. All of them much better, in my opinion.

In any case, this is not the best Kurosawa.

Overrated, as many movies from Kurosawa. It is very long, the performance of the lead actor is not the best. A lot of Moralistic interference. It looks like a Frank Capra movie. Some people like this type of stories. I prefer doing the judgement myself, instead of being administered " Moraline Pills".

I give it a five because the actress is nice. This type of movie has some sex-appeal for people who are unable to distinguish appearance from substance. It does lack authenticity. It is a pseudo-intellectual concoction. Overrated, as Kieslowski. If you like true art, watch a Theo Angelopoulos movie.

Complete crap. I had to stop the DVD player. I read a book instead, and felt a lot of relief.

Repulsive story, highly prejudiced. The movie deals very unsuccessfully with the topic of social class struggle. Basically, the movie offers a violent tale of resentment and inverse snobbery. The rich are stupid and undeserving, the poor are a brotherhood of crooks, etc. It both denigrates rich and poor at the same time. It criticises capitalism and meritocracy but offers no alternative whatsoever. There is a dangerous apology of social revenge ( in the view of the movie, which sides ideologically with the poor, these are justified to kill the rich). It furthers violence, division and polarisation. Repugnant view of the world. Biased, Immoral, Unreal. Pure unadulterated prejudices. Not surprised that Cannes and Hollywood give it prizes. These awards are clearly political. Cinematic Quality has nothing to do with it. All this hype furthered my opinion about the inherent detestability of this very bad movie. Overrated is an understatement. Sick film, sick story. We live in decadent times. It is obvious.