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Fernando Arrabal
Born August 11, 1932 · Melilla, España (age 93)
Fernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955. Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films; he has published plays, novels, poetry collections, chapbooks, artist's books, and several essays.
Known For
Car Cemetery · 1983Car Cemetery
★ 5.11983
MovieScience FictionTV Movie
The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
Farewell, Babylon! · 1993Farewell, Babylon!
1993
MovieDramaComedy
Arrabal's sixth film based on his novel from 1969 with the same name as the movie.
Amours décolorées · 1998Amours décolorées
1998
MovieDocumentaryFantasy
Amours décolorées is a cinematographic poem to the glory of Mariola San Martin, model, stylist, dancer and Spanish photographer.
Trap · 1970Trap
★ 4.71970
MovieThrillerCrime
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.
Avida · 2006Avida
★ 5.82006
MovieComedy
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
Cinématon · 1978Cinématon
★ 4.91978
MovieDocumentary
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
The Tree of Guernica · 1975The Tree of Guernica
★ 6.41975
MovieDramaWar
The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church.
Fando and Lis · 1972Fando and Lis
★ 6.81972
MovieRomanceAdventure
Fando and his partially paralysed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar.
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