The Other Half Is You

Iván Zulueta’s Arrebato and Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession

MADELEINE WALL

“If what I think is going to happen does happen, no one will send you the last film. You’ll have to come and get it,” declares Pedro (Will More) in the opening scene of Arrebato. Made during Spain’s transition to democracy after the death of Franco, Iván Zulueta’s 1979 film is a dark child of the La Movida Madrilena countercultural movement: a claustrophobic film about addiction, of both the narcotic and cinematic variety. Pedro’s provocation is the catalyst for the other members of the film’s central trio—filmmaker José (Eusebio Poncela) and his actor ex-girlfriend Ana (Cecilia Roth)—to join his quest for the rapture referred to in Zulueta’s title. His early belief in the power of cinema dispelled by his experiences in the commercial Spanish film industry, José returns from home…

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Cinema Scope (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 89 - Winter 2022

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