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I’m talking about ARREBATO (1979), of course.

While Zulueta can be compared to other great filmmakers like Lynch or Buñuel, watching his brief filmography (he had no luck with the film industry) it’s obvious that he has his own, magnificent style. An style that combines surrealism, fantasy and most important, the exploration of the fascinating human mind (ARREBATO was a film about an obsession and a dependence).

If someone was in Spain around the 80’s and watched the TV (far better than the actual one, by the way) from those years, PARPADOS will look familiar. The style of TV-series like “Turno de oficio”, “La mujer de tu vida” and others is here (Madrid, 80’s, ‘Movida’, Almodóvar, Fernando Colomo, etc.) and the same actors too. But the man behind the camera is Zulueta, and this may create a surprise due to the greatness and complexity of the movie and the facts that this is television and not cinema and it’s more close (in some ways) to Almodóvar’s particular world (again: Madrid, 80’s) than to ARREBATO.

The story is not easy to summarize. It’s a tale about duality, about 2 characters (Poncela, from ARREBATO, and Paredes) who share a strange connection and maybe, just maybe, are the same person (“My name is Carlos, and Carmen”). We have some scenes taken from differents points of view, two twin sisters who sing and dance (again, the duality) and lots of repeated dialogues and beautiful music only barely listened in the background…

This is Zulueta at his best, and this is PARPADOS, a TV-movie that leaves you with the same feeling than Alain Robbe-Grillet’s LA BELLE CAPTIVE (1983), where what was seen and heard was more important than the story and the plot…

PARPADOS is almost unavailable (spanish TV has shown it recently, though) but it is, of course, a must see.

119MB | 384×288 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/E0FDB19E6079095/Iv_Zulueta_-_P_ados_-_TV-VHSrip_by_Txupa_M_a.avi
https://nitro.download/view/D12328B4B1C3CED/Iván_Zulueta_-_Párpados_-_TV-VHSrip_by_Txupa_Mëlla.srt

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

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A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

2.40GB | 1h 54m | 936×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/DC7C550EA6D3463/Arrebato.1979.576p.BluRay.AAC.x264.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English, Spanish

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Short film in black and white directed by legendary Iván Zulueta as practice for the second year of the Official School of Cinema (Escuela Oficial de Cine). Despite not appearing in the credits, the story is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Oval Portrait”. Shot in 35mm.

This is Zulueta’s first professional film job (previously, with just 20 years old, he had filmed La fortuna de los Irureta in super 8 as an amateur).

169MB | 17m 50s | 720×452 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/67DC4FD97A62792/Agata.1966.Ivan.Zulueta.WEBRip.AAC.x264.RIYE.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/3E041BB951A69D0/Iván_Zulueta_-_Ágata_(1966).srt

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English

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