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FERNANDO ARRABAL COLLECTION
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Playwright, novelist, poet, filmmaker and provocateur Fernando Arrabal has both confounded and delighted audiences with his blasphemous and outrageous cinematic works. This boxed set collects the first three films from Arrabal: Viva La Muerte (1970, 87 mins.) is set during the tumultuous days of the Spanish Civil War. Episodic in structure, the film is a harsh, violent, poetic and often nightmarish coming-of-age story about a youngster's search for meaning. "Inescapably a major work" (The New York Times). I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973, 90 mins.) stars George Shannon as an American playboy who falls in love with a desert mystic and becomes increasingly aware of the modern world's hypocrisy. "Surreal and stimulating" (Chicago Tribune). Finally, The Guernica Tree (1975, 100 mins.) chronicles the depravity and violence that occurred under Franco's tyrannical regime. "Beautiful as a song coming from the origin of time, melancholic and violent"  (Le Monde). In French and Spanish with English subtitles.                Fernando Arrabal---Spain---1970-1975---277 mins.
I WILL WALK LIKE A CRAZY HORSE
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Spanish novelist, playwright and filmmaker Fernando Arrabal's follow up to the   outrageous, unforgettable Viva la Muerte was this equally surreal movie    about a man who flees the repression of society and his religious mother to      find himself in the beauty of nature. There, he falls in love with a hermit,   but upon his return to civilization he is made all the more aware of the       hypocrisy of mankind. In French with optional English subtitles.               Fernando Arrabal---France---1973---90 mins.
VIVA LA MUERTE
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Shortly after Alejandro Jodorowsky brought his Fando and Lis to the screen, Spanish playwright, novelist and filmmaker Fernando Arrabal made his directorial debut with this equally bizarre, though quite different film.  Based on his book, Baal Babylon, it is a shocking, surrealistic portrait of a young boy's search for his father imprisoned during the Spanish Civil War. Filled with grotesque images of violence and sexuality, it has been celebrated as an avant-garde statement and blasted as unpleasant excess. "A paroxysm of anguish, a scream for liberty and probably one of the most ferocious, violent films ever made" (Amos Vogel, The Village Voice). In  French and Spanish with optional English subtitles.  Fernando Arrabal---France/Tunisia---1970---87 mins.